sleepless nights
bonus prompt
11-08-2021, 07:10 PM
Grimshaw & Tyrfing
As the pair of young boys separated to sneak around the racoon a loud snapping sound comes from further back in the forest... From where the coyotes were left. The racoon lets out a chittering sound of fear and darts away again, but even as the instinct to give chase after the retreating ringed tail sets in both wolves find their paws rooted to the spot. Slowly, painfully slowly two pairs of eyes turn to look in the direction of the snapping sound, the air is filling with light pops and creaks and a too loud breathing that sounds labored but still loud enough to carry without a wind to pick it up. Two figures appear from the shadows, too big for the scent that tells the pair what is approaching them, the coyotes. They shuffle forwards with awkward halting steps and each one seems to come with the popping scraping noise... Like bone dragging along bone until it snaps into the proper socket. One of them shuffles forwards into the glow of a cluster of crystal and it is a horrible rotting thing. A jaw just barely hanging onto the upper skull, shreds of flesh the only sign of her pelt and a single bulbous glassy eye hangs from a strand still attached to the empty socket. The male joins her and he is in no better state. That's not possible! These coyotes look like they are several days if not weeks into decomposing! An overwhelming urge to close their eyes washes over Grimshaw and Tyrfing and both fight it as much as they can as the two impossibly decayed and large coyotes continue to shuffle forward. But they do not win that fight and Tyrfing only opens his eyes again when he hears a familiar chittering and shuffling, discovering things are just as they were before the specter of the coyotes approached, racoon and all, as if it never happened.
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