I leap to the other branch. I had overcompensated and had missed the branch by a couple feet. I reached out worried I would fall into the things laying in wait for me to fall. I shot my hands out and grabbed the branch. The long branch was slippery so as I was getting up I was falling as well. I ended up swinging my legs on top of the branch and gaining enough momentum to pull myself into the tree.
I walk along the branch and into the center of the tree. This area was dry and very open and would be the perfect place to rest for now. Of course The Killers would find a way to get up so I couldn’t sleep long. The longer that I slept the more danger I would put myself into.
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It is a good thing that I am used to getting only around 2 and a half hours of sleep, because right as the sun set behind the misty mountains, the Killers had found their way up and were clumsily stalking towards me. I hear one fall as it attempted the jump I landed barely 2 hours ago. I shot up in my hastily made bed and grabbed my torch. As I showed it around the leafy areas of the trees I saw one, it’s green skin pale in the yellow luminescence of the torch. It’s veined eyes gleamed venomously and the rotting teeth inside of it’s mouth glistened with the pale blue spit that their kind had. I pulled out my gun slowly and cautiously as it watched my every move.
I swung my hand around my body and pulled the trigger when it could wait no longer to mangle me and turn me. I shot it straight through the head and kicked it’s body off the tree and down into the bushes surrounding the tree. The others heard the shot and were stupid enough to think the echo was the real shot and they all left, all but one. And this one was the worst of all, It was a Sweller. It heard the corpse of it’s friend falling from above him and he grabbed one of his slimy pus filled pockets. I grabbed my stuff and scrambled out onto a protruding branch right as the thing threw it right where I just was. The stench reached me and I couldn’t help but cough. I realized my mistake right as another ball flew through the air and nearly hit me.
