A Girl Named Crie by Ren Willi (ebook smartphone txt) 📕

will now be taking a 2 hour break at this rest stop," the bus driver said as they pulled up to a gas station with a food court behind it, surrounded by thick woods. Jack got goose bumps as he walked out of the bus and looked into the woods. He felt as though something was peering at him from the shadows of the tree. He turned to Crie who had stopped behind him, staring at forest with an expression that was a mix of fear and sadness.

"Hey, Crie," Jack said, touching her arm gently. "Are you okay?"

"Huh," she said, snapping out of her trance and looking at him as if she had never seen him before. "Oh, it's just you."

"What's wrong?" he asked. She shook her head, staring back at the woods. "Well, there's food in there, let's go."

"This was a bad idea," she said suddenly.

"What do mean?" he asked, surprised.

"Thanks for the offer, but I think I'll travel on my own from here," she said without looking at him and turning and walking down the empty road. "Sorry." Jack stared after her, not knowing what to do or say. Perhaps it was best she did leave, he thought, it does solve the problem. Yet as he thought this he began to walk after her. He couldn't explain why he needed to follow her. Maybe it was because he didn't want to travel alone, or he just wanted to travel with her.

Maybe it was because he didn't like the way the trees rustled on the windless day.

 

Looking down on the fiery haired creature Jay felt a wave of unbearable excitment that made her feathers twitch. Her was her chance to snatch her up like an owl on a mouse. But just as those mutts had said, she was being accompained my a man, although is seemed she was tryng to speperate from him. To late, Jay thought. 

 

"Just go away," Cry pleaded over her shoulder as she walked down the road, looking warily around herself like a mouse in an open feild. 

'"What are you so scared of?" Jack demanded, striding closer to her.

"I'm not scared!" she insisted angrily.

"Yeah, well you sure seem that way," he scoffed, but then almost feel backward when she suddenly turned and stared him straight on with furious, green eyes.

 

Perfect, Jay thought, stretching her shining, black wings in preparation of flight. Stay like that...

 

"I. Am. Not. Scared!" The look in her eyes, anger mixed with a voilatial passion, made Jack want to kneel in forgivness and run away with yellow stained pants.  Buts instead he stared back in her burning, green eyes and asked,

"Then what are you doing if you're not stumbling away in fear?"

 

Stay right there...

 

"I was trying to protect you," she answered in a trembling voice.

"Protect me?" Jack pertruted, shocked. "From who?"

 

And prepare to meet your...

 

"From..." Cry started.

 

Demise. 

 

"Me."

What happened next was like clockwork. Time had stopped, or at least slowed down by 95%. Jack, not fully understanded what Cry said, looked at her with utter confusion. And then he was suddenly aware of a prescence that was edging closer and closer towards him. A prescence filled with the intintion to kill. Before he turn his head something pushed at his chest, flying him away, and then there was only fire. He covered his face with his arms, but felt no heat edging nearr him. And then there was a blood-currdling cry of agony. Cry, he thought, and looked between his arms. 

But it was not Cry who was screaming out the last of her life with all that she had. No, he wasn't even sure if she was human, or a "she". It seemed like woman from forehaed o chin, but the rest is the body of a raven, times ten its normal size. And it was slowly turning into something unrecognizable as the fire ate away at its' body, with a hurger that would never end. And standing only a few feet away, watching with unfazed eyes was a girl named Cry.

 

 

That's a Strange Name

That's what almost everyone said to the girl named Crie.

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Text: Lauren Williams
Images: Emmy Wahlback
Publication Date: 02-06-2013

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