Assignment - Manchurian Doll
“She ran, not knowing where to go.
She was spurred by a panic that took her beyond all reasonable control. She had seen Durell go down, and then the old woman had clawed at her and shrieked, and the smell of the old woman was the same smell she remembered from the hut of Pere Jacques. It was as if a floodgate were suddenly smashed within her, and an animal instinct to run and hide from dark and filthy terrors seized her.
For several moments she was content with the wild, physical exertio...n of scrambling up the hill. Her mind did not function. Her lungs pumped air, her heart thudded, the muscles of her legs stretched and tightened, her feet struck solidly on the stony earth, the warm wind tangled fingers in her hair. . . .
She ran.
She did not look back. Durell must be dead, the sergeant had killed him, and the old woman—the old woman who smelled like that crazy old man who had used her twelve-year-old body for dark eternities of imprisonment in a black and smelly cell— She fell, lay in the wet mud, wept and laughed.MoreLess
She was spurred by a panic that took her beyond all reasonable control. She had seen Durell go down, and then the old woman had clawed at her and shrieked, and the smell of the old woman was the same smell she remembered from the hut of Pere Jacques. It was as if a floodgate were suddenly smashed within her, and an animal instinct to run and hide from dark and filthy terrors seized her.
For several moments she was content with the wild, physical exertio...n of scrambling up the hill. Her mind did not function. Her lungs pumped air, her heart thudded, the muscles of her legs stretched and tightened, her feet struck solidly on the stony earth, the warm wind tangled fingers in her hair. . . .
She ran.
She did not look back. Durell must be dead, the sergeant had killed him, and the old woman—the old woman who smelled like that crazy old man who had used her twelve-year-old body for dark eternities of imprisonment in a black and smelly cell— She fell, lay in the wet mud, wept and laughed.MoreLess
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