Finley Cai Aies Hall: April 7th 20XX
No. no no no no no no
The single word looped through my mind as my legs burned with exhaustion.
It was a situation that would forgive my usage of expletives or any other strong word, but ‘no’ was the only thing I had the energy to repeat.
The shrubbery I dived into did a decent job of hiding me, and thankfully the monster seemed to have a dull sense of smell.
It was a monstrosity the size of a baby elephant that had the body of a turkey, the tail of a peacock, and the beak of an eagle. It was a bird, that much was clear, but it would have been a waste of time to try identifying it.
The monster excitedly foraged around the compound and poked its nose into everything it could, trying to find me. Its beak snapped open and closed as it looked forward
