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[COLOR=tan][indent][sub][B]Location:[/B] [COLOR=SILVER][I]Home - Debolt, Alberta, Canada
[/I][/COLOR][/sub][sup][right][b] Human: #5.084 [/B][COLOR=SILVER][I]Fight or Flight!?[/I][/COLOR][/right][/sup][/indent][sub][hr][/sub][INDENT][sub][B]Interaction(s):[/B] [COLOR=SILVER][I]Rory [@Webboysurf], Daedalus’s Children[/I][/COLOR][/sub][SUP][RIGHT][b]Previously:[/b] [COLOR=SILVER][I]I’d Gladly Be The Icarus To Your Certainty[/I][/COLOR][/right][/SUP][/INDENT][/COLOR]

[color=gray]A screech erupted out of the silence of the forest, horrific and grinding against Haven’s eardrums, and it took all of her will not to lose herself to the sheer terror that ignited within her.

Her head whipped towards Rory, eyes wide as adrenaline began to course through her veins. They caught sight of movement outside of the front windows and she tracked it, eyes flitting to catch sight of what had come for them.

She could hear the sounds of four limbs pounding closer to the front porch. The figure she caught outside the kitchen window lunged for the banister from the treeline. Eight distinct thumps sounded on the roof to the left. When she looked towards the windows by the front door, towards the roofline, four sets of fingers grasped the edge as black hair hung between them.

They were outnumbered, and worst of all… 

They were outmatched.

[color=tan]“Three at the front, and whatever the hell screamed above us!”[/color] She shouted to Rory.

Her feet were moving before she could see the face of what owned the four limbs, racing over to join Rory. The front door was already being assaulted by the one who had run on four legs to get there. Haven threw her back against it, ruffled feathers pressed and pinched between the wood and her skin, hoping to keep the one pounding against the door at bay while they fought the other two.

[color=tan]“I’m so sorry.”[/color] She managed to choke the words out, her eyes filled with the fear and utter guilt now overwhelming her. Daedalus had come for her, had sent his creations after them, it was all her fault, and she didn’t run. She would stay by Rory’s side until the bitter end.

She grabbed the cane from Rory’s hands and swapped it with the iron poker, knowing it would give him the best luck against these new monsters.

Scratching noises could be heard all around them as Haven whispered. [color=tan]“Run for the truck if you get a chance.”[/color]

It was then that bats suddenly erupted within the cabin, crawling out of each and every nook or crack in the cabin’s foundation. Some flew in through the chimney, passing through the flames easily, while some came from the flooring. They made a pass around the room before colliding in front of the backdoor, merging into one conglomerate of flesh until a large man, more bat than human, stood with his leathery wings raised beside him.

[i]Wings like the Chernobog.[/i]

He took a shuddering breath and when he screamed sonic pulses emitted through the cabin. They shattered the windows in a flurry of glass, and left the couple’s ears ringing in their wake.

Haven lifted her head from where she’d cringed into herself when he finished. She removed her hands from her ears, disoriented and panicked, and she heard the muffled sound of eight legs dropping into the cabin to her right. Her head turned towards the sound, wondering what else had come for them, and she flinched at the sight of the woman before her.

To Rory’s left, four muffled thumps sounded as a greenish man landed inside on his hands and feet. A shorter man with spikes growing from his skin shortly crawled in after him.

Haven felt like her heart was going to burst out of her chest as her hands tightened around Rory’s cane.[/color]