Beneath the Silent Sky

Previously

…“Keep going!” Leo shouted, his voice strained. “Don’t look back!” Ethan didn’t look back. He couldn’t. He just ran, his mind a chaotic whirl of terror and disbelief. His overactive imagination, the thing that had always plagued him, had somehow manifested the very nightmares he’d always feared. The woods, he now understood with a chilling certainty, were not just silent. They were watching. And they were hungry. He stumbled and fell, scraping his knee on a sharp rock. He cried out in pain, but the sound was lost in the pounding of his own heart and the terrifying sounds of their pursuer. He had to get up. He had to keep running. For Sam. For Noah. For himself.