Chapter 22: Meeting the Forest Demon
The thing spoke. “Babies are why you must come with me now.” The voice was an amalgam of animal growls, human voices, and far-off thunder. “No. I need to leave.” Tammy thought about darting for the keys, taking her chances, but she knew that thing could overtake her no matter how fast she moved. It wasn’t human or she was batshit crazy. At that point she didn’t know which would be worse. The thing held out a hand that looked eerily humanish except in size—like the rest of the creature, its hand was huge. “Come now.” Tammy recognized the pent-up anger in its voice, the annoyance that wanted free, was barely contained under a thin veil of forced civility. Fear gnawed at her guts and panic clawed at her mind. In a split-second of clarity, in her mind’s eye, she saw very vividly a picture o
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