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gaze on the clear sky of the horizon. Her worn clothing set nearby, drying after her attempt at washing them. It was nice as long as she ignored him.
    Then he quietly growls, forcing Alasa to slowly pull her attention away from her weak breath like happiness and settle on her bleak reality. He's quickly tugging on his 'rags', his attention on the horizon, thick brows scrunched.
    He once again growls, gaze finding her, his growl is more urgent this go, his order very clear. She climbs onto unstable feet, quickly grabbing up her damp pants and pulling them on. He was ushering her back inside quickly like a sheep dog ushers sheep, forcing her forward by circling her, leaving her shirtless for now.
    She was absolutely confused but one thing was very clear, something had him spooked. She hears a low hum before they make it into the cave, and at first the girl believes it to be an air plane. For a fleeting moment Alasa actually thinks she is actually being rescued.
    She turns her body at the mouth opening, standing on tips of her feet to see over his shoulders. Was she found? Would she finally get to go home?
    Her blood runs ice cold when the big, black, bulky shape appears over head, many miles away, yet oddly still visible easily. It wasn't an air plane, nor a helicopter. It was something she had never seen before.
    An animal, it was an animal.
    He forced her still body forward with his own body, forcing them both into the blackness of the cave.
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    Chapter 10
    Lacey
    His hand smells like garbage and beans. Not exactly how Lacey would like to be awoken. That and he was literally cutting off her precious air. So, it was no surprise a string of un-lady like curses were on there way out of her mouth before Henderson shushed her like a bitter librarian.
    She glared at him hatefully. If he was effected in anyway by her behavior, he hid it well. Instead he quickly pointed at the window behind him, before motioning upstairs.
    What? The teen glared at him. What in the hell? She understood be quiet, but all his random pointing was doing nothing but annoying her.
    A loud, bone-chilling hoot had her nearly jumping out of her skin, her arms latching onto Henderson, nails digging into her flesh. He quietly hissed. She ignored him, staring wide-eyed at the window, hearing shouts and voices.
    "Do something..." She hisses at Henderson. The first voices she'd heard in months and none of them sounded 'right'. Henderson's stories flashing through her mind.
    Once again Henderson shushed her and pried her nails out of his arm and quickly grabbed her wrist, tugging her onto her feet. He grabbed his bag and hers, quickly tugging them both upstairs. He tugs both of them down the hall and reaches a bedroom and urges both of them inside and into a closet, harshly shoving her inside and he following after.
    Lacey holds in a curse as a dusty coat hits her in the face and Henderson's body pushing her further into it. Her stomach churns as moth ball odor assaults her. Henderson crouches down, pulling her with him.
    Lacey whines mentally. 'Yeah Henderson, the closet isn't at all an obvious hiding hang out.' 'No one will look in here.' They were through, already, it was so obvious. It wasn't fair honestly, she had only recently gotten out of a basement only to now be trapped in a funky box, minutes away from being enslaved by crazy people...
    This is all Henderson's fault.
    A loud bang bring her out of her misplaced hatred and she finds herself, once again clinging to Henderson, her face hitting his shoulder. She hears heavy footsteps, voices and laughter. She cringes, someone has a horrible laugh. A few minutes later she hears a woman's scream, which almost has her screaming.
    Her body stiffens, breath stuck inside of her. Begging, someone's begging. The woman is begging and sobbing.
    "No please... No... No..."
    Lacey lifts her head, pulled by some unseen force.
    "Help...Someone help, please..." The woman's yells are weak but oddly travel loudly through the