Chapter 50: Choices 1

“Please… stop hurting them…” a girl’s soft voice cried out in the darkness.

Jay paused, surprised at hearing a young woman’s voice in here, a dark ravine filled with deadly leeches of all places.

Surely everyone was dead by now…

He questioned Anya to make sure he wasn’t crazy.

“Did you hear that? The voice?” he asked Anya as he looked around for the source of the voice.

Since the red-lined leeches weren’t attacking or closing in anymore, he had his skeletons temporarily stop attacking because of what the voice said - they seemed to freeze like statues in mid-attack, still ready to continue the slaughter after the slightest signal from Jay.

“Do you see anyone?” he asked.

“No, I don’t see anything… Shouldn’t everyone be dead by now?”

Suddenly, the red-lined leeches circle formation moved and opened on one side.