Inhabited
“The snake was coming right for her.
She had a rock in her hand, but it was the last rock she had. She wasn’t about to waste it throwing it at a snake. Besides, she would probably just make the snake angry if she hit it with a rock. She waited. There was almost nothing in the world that creeped her out more than snakes. As it slithered, the snake moved it’s coils up the sandy slope just enough so that when it slipped back down it would stay on the path. This wasn’t a marked path, it was the tin...y gap between two of the shadow traps. Kristin knew where it was because she had seen the traps deploy. She didn’t know how the snake sensed it.
The snake was ten feet away when it stopped. She couldn’t see it in the starlight, but she imagined its tongue flicking out, tasting the air, wondering what she was doing there in the middle of its desert.
The snake reached some decision and started moving again.
Kristin didn’t have a choice—she couldn’t move. Her last few rocks had missed the mark, but she wasn’t sure they would have done any good anyway.MoreLess
She had a rock in her hand, but it was the last rock she had. She wasn’t about to waste it throwing it at a snake. Besides, she would probably just make the snake angry if she hit it with a rock. She waited. There was almost nothing in the world that creeped her out more than snakes. As it slithered, the snake moved it’s coils up the sandy slope just enough so that when it slipped back down it would stay on the path. This wasn’t a marked path, it was the tin...y gap between two of the shadow traps. Kristin knew where it was because she had seen the traps deploy. She didn’t know how the snake sensed it.
The snake was ten feet away when it stopped. She couldn’t see it in the starlight, but she imagined its tongue flicking out, tasting the air, wondering what she was doing there in the middle of its desert.
The snake reached some decision and started moving again.
Kristin didn’t have a choice—she couldn’t move. Her last few rocks had missed the mark, but she wasn’t sure they would have done any good anyway.MoreLess
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