That didn’t stop them from trying. Portland and Titania clawed at the side of the pit directly beneath me, trying to dig their hands in enough to get firm holds so they could climb up. Instead they just tore out handfuls of mud, and more of the pit’s walls showered down upon them. Winter tried to pull herself up one of those tall bones, maybe to throw herself off it in an attempt to reach me once she was high enough, but it snapped under her weight and she fell down to the earth. The camera that I’d put on top of the tool box lay at their feet now but continued to flash away. I saw one of the ties from the photo shoot lying nearby, the one of the b****y women tearing apart a body. I knew I’d never be able to wear a tie again if I got out of there alive.
I went over to the excavator that w
