This week's picture prompt was created by Jeffrey Smith, it's called Summoned. I used one of his recently on Week 307 & couldn't miss this one with the build up to Halloween! He has some incredible art worth checking out.
A short dark one this week, with an edge of hope.
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The Hunt
From our hidden
burrow we saw it; the sequel had gone up to call them to him. It blazed with its
evil grin and we shivered in the darkness.
We could hear the rumblings of the others
coming to the call. All the depraved and twisted faces flashing past, lit up by
the burning orange light making them more grotesque than normal.
We scuttled deeper under ground, running
this way and that, hoping to be far enough away by the time they were gathered ready
for their hunt – their ‘trick or treat’ as they liked to call it.
Both were for their benefit: the trick was
to catch us, the treat was to eat us. Our bodies would join the blaze in the
field. We only hoped they weren’t fast enough, clever enough, or thin enough to
find us.
Some of us climbed trees, becoming like
four legged creatures as we scurried to the tallest limbs. They rarely looked
up making it would be the safest way. They would be expecting us to be
underground, where we had burrowed for generations, since they cast our goodness
out. And there would be weak among us who would not manage to remain hidden and
from the tree tops we would watch their sacrifice as they were torn and
roasted.
The only hope was that each year there were
less of them and more of us. They were dying out, along with their rituals,
which took place is fewer places. Each year they looked more ragged and feeble,
some only there to watch, no longer able to walk. As they fed on our weakest,
we grew in strength.
Our time would come soon and the only thing
ablaze would be the remains of their lives.
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