The bed was corse and uncomfortable, it’s padding more steel wire than the supposed animal fur.

I was trying to make it work but honestly after a few days of taking shelter in old ‘survivors’ bunker, the lack of good padding was getting to me.

Sure, I was slowly starving to death and only had enough water to last me a week, but the padding…

I sighed might as well get up and stretch

I rubbed my eyes and slowly almost methodically reached out, my hand tracing the concrete in an attempt to find the light switch.

“I could have sworn it was here” I murmured

and of course just as soon as I uttered those words

*click*

“Gahhh!”

“Fuck, I can never remember how bright this light is” I complain rubbing my eyes in a futile attempt to help my eyes adjust to the now glaringly bright room.

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It takes longer than I’d like to admit for me and my eyes to adjust.

But those are the follies of being human I suppose.

I sigh again and heave myself from the horrible monstrosity pretending to be a bed.

I look around trying to help my mind leave the state of sleep that it’s in

The grey concrete walls that surround me don’t exactly make for the best wake up calls

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But the flashing monitor does

I leap to my feat nearly tripping on my feat to look at the monitor.

And as I reach the monitor, my blood runs cold

Directly outside sniffing around is a hound.

“Fuck” I curse quickly grabbing my gun resting on the wall

Out of the corner of my eye I see the hound pick up my sent and start to attack the door that stands between me and it.

I cock the gun and wait my hands shaking slightly

*thunk*

*scrape*

The sounds almost seem alien, like they come from another world.

*SCRAPE*

I nearly shoot at how close the sound sounds.

But then silence.

.

.

.

.

Nothing

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.

.

*CRUNCH*

The door bends inward and the bolts keeping the door in place fly outward hitting me in the shoulder.

But I was to busy shooting the beast that now stood panting in the doorway.

Slobbering and panting it’s teeth and claws full of metal from the door it just clawed through.

The shots seemed to do nothing as the beast almost methodically began to close the distance between us.

*BANG*

*Bang*

*bang*

*ba-

Why can’t I hear

What am I doing

Who am I fighting

*Chomp*

I scream

The hound reached my it’s jaws sinking into my collarbone

It’s teeth barely barely meeting any resistance

And in that moment our eyes connected

It’s orange eyes seeming to taunt me and my futile attempt to stop it

*RIIII-II-PPP*

It shakes its head ripping my arm and parts of my collarbone from its rightful place

Like a fountain the blood coats the walls and the face of the hound it’s eyes almost seeming to glow through the mist of blood.

I grin

With the last of my strength I pull the trigger and shoot it directly in its face

*Snap*

My non destroyed arm snaps back and hits the wall limp and broken

My eyes flicker back to the hound hoping with all my heart to have killed it but as my eyes land in the hound my heart drops.

A small trickle of blood leaking from its left eye

It’s face now full of rage

It pounces with its jaws open with the intent to kill me in one bite.

I close my eyes

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I slump forward and pass out

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Hounds

Hounds are generally pong to horse sized animals with the appearance of a large canine, usually they will travel in packs of up to 15.

Hounds are very territorial and will attack almost anything that steps into their territory.

Hounds are also know for their resemblance to wolves, as they seem to imitate the hunting tactics and structure of a wolf pack, in other words they’re smart and have an Alpha.

Very rarely do they travel alone.

Good luck :)

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Taken from a post-it stuck to an MTF uniform, origin unknown

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