“We’re stuck,”

Tasunee said

Harlen stopped walking.

“What do you mean?”

For a second there was pure silence. Harlen could hear Tasunee's heartbeat.

“Don’t you get what I mean?! We’ve been walking for almost an hour now, and we’re coming back to the same spot again and again! We’re stuck!”

Tasunee was frustrated. At one point, tears started to stream down her face.

Harlen couldn’t figure out what to do. He took a step toward Tasunee.

“Hey, don’t worry. I’m sure we’ll eventually find a way back to the city,”

Tasunee flinched and backed away.

“Don’t you dare take another step toward me!”

Tasunee yelled

Harlen, surprised by Tasunee’s behavior, backed away quickly.

He reached out to hold Haskiel’s hand—

but he wasn’t there.

“Haskiel?!”

Harlen freaked out. Suddenly, nothing else mattered anymore.

"Where's Haskiel??"

"Where is he? Did we leave him behind? Didn't he come with us?"

"I—I don't know! Haskiel! Haskiel where are you?"

The world tilted. Tasunee pressed a hand to her temple as nausea crawled up her throat.

Harlen took a few steps back

"We need to go find him, NOW"

He started walking back without waiting for Tasunee. He took a few steps, but then something squishy came under his shoe

He took a step back to see what it is

"Tasunee, wha—what is this?"

"Where? Let me take a look"

Tasunee steps forward to see it and it makes her wanna throw up

"It looks like a piece of meat, but it wasn’t here before"

"Yeah and it looks very fresh, there's still blood on it"

"Where did it come from? Where is Haskiel, and where are WE?"

Tasunee puts a hand over her head

"All I want now is to go home— oh what's that smell?"

"Smells like rotten meat, but is it coming from this piece here—"

Another piece of meat drops from somewhere they can't quite figure out.

Tasunee looks up at the sky, It's still the same but the trees now seem darker

Then another piece lands. One, two, three, several

"Run!"

It was raining...meat

"What's happening?!" Tasunee almost falls while running several times. She had fallen behind Harlen

"Run faster! Tasunee!"

Their cloths were getting soaked in blood, the smell getting more unbearable with each passing second.

Harlen grabbed Tasunee’s arm in a hurry and started running wherever his legs led him.

Pieces of meat smashed under their boots.

Harlen’s white shirt was now half red, and Tasunee’s jacket was soaked and dripping with blood.

Tasunee was terrified that a man was holding her arm—

but the situation terrified her even more.

“Gosh, it burns!”

Harlen stops. A piece had landed on his head and the blood had slipped all the way down to his eyes

Tasunee freed her arm first

She took a breath and looked back.

The rain had stopped.

And it looked like they had run out of the loop

They were on a completely different path.

She took a few seconds to calm down and looked around more carefully—

and almost had a stroke from the sight.

There weren’t just pieces of meat.

There were pieces of human bodies.

Fingers were scattered across the path.

A bush of hair—

a foot—

all lying there, covered in fresh blood.

“T-That’s—”

Before Tasunee could finish, something dropped from the sky—

maybe from a tree.

A head.

It rolled once.

And stopped.

Harlen’s breath left his body.

The eyes were open.

“Haskiel…”