My brother enveloped me in a massive hug, crushing some of the already flattened chip packets that I’d forgotten about to my body.
“Are you okay, what was that?” He asked and looked at me curiously as I lifted up my shirt and revealed the chip packets and chips sticking to the skin on my stomach.
“Ariah!” Reese gasped. “What is on your body?”
“Oh it’s just broken chips, I put the packets down my shirt to carry them more easily.” I responded, slightly embarrassed.
“No, not those, that!” She said and pointed at an area on my stomach.
I looked down and saw what looked like burn marks across my stomach and chest, in the places that the monster had held me.
“That must have been from when the monster grabbed me. It had a pretty tight grip.” I said, examining the marks. Oddly I felt no pain which I thought was weird and it hadn’t burnt my clothes, only my skin. My flesh rose in raw bloody bumps where the burns were.
“It was holding you?!” Roderick exclaimed looking at my stomach. “They look like the burns on Eamon’s legs…”
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“Eamon!” We all exclaimed and looked at each other realising that in the chaos we’d forgotten about him.
We looked over to where he had been laying and the mess had fortunately missed him, only covering him in a thin layer of dust.
“Eamon!” I called out as I ran over to him and fell to my knees beside him. I wiped away the dust from his face. “Where are the water bottles that I saved?”
The others looked around the floor and managed to find a couple that had survived. Roderick threw me one and I caught it, immediately opening it and putting it to Eamon’s lips. He opened them slightly and I was able to tip some water gently into his mouth. I tilted the bottle a little higher and he was able to take down a fair amount, which I hoped meant that he was starting to feel slightly better. Eamon murmured, letting me know he was done and gave me a slight smile as I lifted the bottle away from his lips. Wiping his forehead, I noticed that he felt hot and his skin was clammy. His eyes stayed closed but he seemed to drift off to sleep again so I stood up and looked at the others.
“He’s okay but I think we need to get him out of here and get something to treat his wounds.” I said putting the bottle of water to my own lips and taking a big sip. My mouth felt dry and full of dust, the water was refreshing even though I could taste concrete.
“Yes, we need to move. This gym isn’t going to remain standing for much longer.” Reese said looking up. Another lightning strike flew across the sky.
“That creature must have been causing the earthquakes and those pink light attacks. They seem to have stopped.” Roderick noted as he looked up too.
“I think so too. It’s occupied at the moment, but for how long?” Reese continued to look up, keeping a watch on what was happening above. A worried frown appeared on her forehead.