You can't be food if you are not there
Island of Change Collaberotica Version
Chapter 10
· original author:
distantmark
Defensive instincts fire off through your mind and body with being informed you are nothing more than food to something. Adrenaline bursts into your system and you raise your hands to defend against a grabbing hand or maybe teeth. With their release on the stalk your right foot slides further into the void and now up to your right knee. Hurriedly your throw your hands claw, swim, and scrape their way through the muck back to the stalk and try to pull yourself back up to where you were. No progress but you don’t sink further. Still you look for the voice but find nothing.
Leaves rustle violently, something moves through them with enough speed that you cannot figure out where it’s coming from save for somewhere above and behind you. Wasn’t there a wall behind you? The path was in front of you, did you misjudge something while focusing on the door? No there was definitely a wall, and nobody else there either. As your head whips around to double check, it hits you.
A blur shaped like a snake tares through the air right in your face. Compounding the pain of the previous impact your face took from the door causes your eyes to clamp shut ad you turn away. Before you can open your eyes and try to look back at whatever hit you, it whips around your head and neck several times and then clamps down. Whatever this is, is now wrapped around your neck and mouth, not choking you but holding you very firmly. Your eyes open but you can’t see it, or turn your head to see what the shake, tentacle, rope, thing was further comprised of. It pulls you back away from the path, very powerfully. Between your hands on the stalk and almost half of your body being in the ground, it doesn’t pull you quickly. However it does overpower your neck and your back is forced to twist and go with it’s force. Whatever it is will win this tug of war sooner rather than later. Desperately you spare a hand to try to tear this thing off of you. Your fingers find a layer on your face to work between and you start to pull. It reacts by relaxing it’s pull and loops one more coil around your neck, crushing your hand to your neck and it resumes pulling. Unable to pull your hand away and unwilling to risk releasing the stalk, there is nothing to do but try to see what has you. Slowly you twist yourself around to see and you find
Leaves rustle violently, something moves through them with enough speed that you cannot figure out where it’s coming from save for somewhere above and behind you. Wasn’t there a wall behind you? The path was in front of you, did you misjudge something while focusing on the door? No there was definitely a wall, and nobody else there either. As your head whips around to double check, it hits you.
A blur shaped like a snake tares through the air right in your face. Compounding the pain of the previous impact your face took from the door causes your eyes to clamp shut ad you turn away. Before you can open your eyes and try to look back at whatever hit you, it whips around your head and neck several times and then clamps down. Whatever this is, is now wrapped around your neck and mouth, not choking you but holding you very firmly. Your eyes open but you can’t see it, or turn your head to see what the shake, tentacle, rope, thing was further comprised of. It pulls you back away from the path, very powerfully. Between your hands on the stalk and almost half of your body being in the ground, it doesn’t pull you quickly. However it does overpower your neck and your back is forced to twist and go with it’s force. Whatever it is will win this tug of war sooner rather than later. Desperately you spare a hand to try to tear this thing off of you. Your fingers find a layer on your face to work between and you start to pull. It reacts by relaxing it’s pull and loops one more coil around your neck, crushing your hand to your neck and it resumes pulling. Unable to pull your hand away and unwilling to risk releasing the stalk, there is nothing to do but try to see what has you. Slowly you twist yourself around to see and you find
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July 28, 2023
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