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All alone in the middle of the woods in the middle of the night.
Branches creak overhead and animals watch from the gloom.
Could I outrun a bear or beast if it came to it?
Doubtful.
Each minute I'm here my survival rate goes down.
Faint sounds of a river-maybe a larger creek?-come from my left.
Getting back to civilization is key so I walk to the river in hopes of it passing through a town but something stops me first.
Here I trip over something big and solid and wet.
I'm afraid to look but I have to know.
Jerking back after I see what tripped me I almost throw up.
Keeping away from the mutilated carcass of what used to be my friend and camping partner I hurry on through the woods.
Leaving him behind made me feel terrible but I could send people for him later.
My life was on the line here, his was already gone.
Naturally I'm terrified and already running, but this time I watch where I step.
Oceans of sound assault me as I run and I think I even hear footsteps keeping pace with me just a few trees away.
Panic is slowly setting in and I'm not even looking where I'm going anymore.
Quicker, please let me be quicker!
Racing a hidden threat has my adrenaline pumping but my energy is running out...
Secretly I almost wish the Thing would go ahead and take me, just so this could end.
The Thing seems to like to play and continues the chase.
Unfortunately for me-and even the Thing as it seems to enjoy my suffering-it looks as it I have nowhere else to run.
Vultures will have first pick of my corpse, I can already see them flying over us.
Will my body even be found?
Xanthic rocks loom above me and continue both left and right, there's no escape.
Yellow light of the moon makes everything around me ethereal as I turn to face my Death.
Zephyrs blow around me, encouraging me, as I stare straight at the Thing and decide I'm not going down without a fight....