The Tartan Ringers
“I fled across the slope I’d climbed, my torchlight flickering ahead on shining angles of granite projecting from the heather. Maybe I even imagined I was going at a speed Ranter couldn’t match.
Then I heard it, breathing like a train. It slobbered as it ran, a flopping sound as its feet landed. It didn’t dash like a greyhound or scamper like a beagle. It simply loped. In that first terror-stricken moment when I’d seen it start, its apparently casual movement said it all. What’s the hurry? its g...raceful mass announced as it hunched up to start the pursuit. It’s not a race – it’s a hunt. Sooner or later, it seemed to say, the quarry’ll tire, weaken, flake out, and then . . . I was moaning as I ran. If I’d had breath enough I’d have whimpered, prayed, screamed, anything.
Ahead a roaring sound. I’d say I headed for it except that that expression makes my progress sound like a ramble. Reality was different. I was scrambling, stumbling, gasping, across the stony hillside slope, trying to hold my torch out ahead for sight, anything to keep ahead of that dreadful slapping which proved the bloody monster was gaining.MoreLess
Then I heard it, breathing like a train. It slobbered as it ran, a flopping sound as its feet landed. It didn’t dash like a greyhound or scamper like a beagle. It simply loped. In that first terror-stricken moment when I’d seen it start, its apparently casual movement said it all. What’s the hurry? its g...raceful mass announced as it hunched up to start the pursuit. It’s not a race – it’s a hunt. Sooner or later, it seemed to say, the quarry’ll tire, weaken, flake out, and then . . . I was moaning as I ran. If I’d had breath enough I’d have whimpered, prayed, screamed, anything.
Ahead a roaring sound. I’d say I headed for it except that that expression makes my progress sound like a ramble. Reality was different. I was scrambling, stumbling, gasping, across the stony hillside slope, trying to hold my torch out ahead for sight, anything to keep ahead of that dreadful slapping which proved the bloody monster was gaining.MoreLess
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