CHAPTER 14- Matiu -
Matiu vaults onto the low roof of the pens, shotgun counterbalancing the tricky manoeuvre, and crouches low, running lightly along the creaking tin roof towards the house. The living mass of dogs swarm around the side of the building, a wave of claw and tooth and slavering drool, all barking and jostling against each other in the frenzy of sudden freedom and the wild rush of hunger. He comes around the peak of the storage sheds, gaining a view of the open space in front of the house.
The thing that Hanson has become is halfway across the dirt road now, ichor dripping from ragged wounds, one tentacle dragging limp behind it. Matiu, his stomach dropping at the sight, kneels, bracing the shotgun and sighting down the barrel. He was right to keep Penny away. Her sane and
