Alabama, a month later
“P-p-please..don’t hurt me. I-I have kids...they...they...will be worried about me. P-please....”
The animal was not deaf. It heard the woman alright. The truth was, the beast had a hearing that surpasses those of an average person and those of an animal. It was out of control, blinded by its own desire to feed its cavernous craving.
It needed meat.
Unfortunately, the woman who went to hike in the mountains came across the beast. The time was four in the afternoon. Terry Donovan was taking the same trail that she followed that morning. For a mother of two, hiking recharges her from her hectic life as a single parent to her twins. On Saturdays, her mother gladly watches over her toddlers so she can have her much needed break.
Today, she was the beast's late lunc
