[JEMMA]

Holly grew angrier and angrier as Joe shook his head to Krystal's pleas of returning in the night to find Katey and Eliza. Krystal had explained how strange Eliza was acting and how worried she was for the safety of Katey.

"Some leader," Holly finally sniffed in anger, causing both Krystal and Joe to acknowledge her standing there. Most people just ignored her until she snapped in anger. Maybe that's why she was so quick to anger, to begin with. She tried to change with Gavin, but look where that got her. Gavin was probably dead and her hero turned out to be one of those damned monsters.

She wasn't going to thank the creature even if it did save her. It was its fault for putting her in the current situation, to begin with, and she'd be damned if she would thank the beast. Even if she did see the sadness in its eyes earlier.

"It's too dangerous," Joe explained to Holly before turning back to Krystal. "We can go first thing in the morning."

"That might be too late," Krystal argued, but her tone suggested that she was giving up.

"Those things will be coming any moment now," he stated as he placed a sympathetic hand on the other woman's shoulder. "I'm surprised they're not here yet."

"You're right," Krystal said after a moment of silence. "I know you're right but this still sucks."

"That's it?!" Holly shouted in disbelief. Krystal claimed to love that Katey girl for some reason and yet she was willing to give up that quickly?

"We have no other choice," Joe said as he barely acknowledged Holly.

"Like hell we don't," she shouted through clamped teeth. "We always have a choice."

"Why don't you go then?!?" Krystal broke shouted as she stepped up to Holly's face. Krystal was a good foot taller than her, but she didn't let that intimidate her. She just matched the angry stare.

"What?!" Holly shouted back at her.

"You don't do anything here except yell and complain," Krystal continued. "Why don't you make yourself useful and do something productive!"

Holly's face grew hot with anger, but she didn't say anything. What was there to say? She could curse and shout at the woman, but that would only satisfy Krystal as being right and she wasn't going to give her the satisfaction.

"Fine," Holly sniffed and stomped out the door, slamming it behind her. She looked around as shadows played tricks on her. Those things could be anywhere, but her anger was greater than her fear.

She looked at the house that held Coralyn and that monster and nodded her head. That was where she would get answers. She could have the monster guide her to Katey. She smiled slightly at her own genius for thinking of something that those morons could never consider.

She opened the front door and started to walk back to the bedroom when the noises caused her feet to stop moving. Groans and moans came from the room. She slowly approached and pushed the broken door slightly open enough to get a peek at what was going on. Her eyes went wide.

Coralyn was in the air with her back to the creature as it held her up and slammed its dick inside of her roughly. She eyed the size of the thing's cock and wondered why she had never seen it before.

She considered knocking on the door but pulled her hand away as she thought about how awkward that interaction would become. Then anger once again flooded her.

To allow a monster like that to fuck you is truly insane. This village is going to hell and there's nothing she could do about it. She figured her only bet would be to search for Katey on her own. Things started to feel safer out there than in the village anyway.

The sounds of flesh on flesh and moans slowly faded out of her ears as she left the house and started walking down the dirt path toward the direction that Krystal had pointed out earlier when the discussion was first brought up.

The shadows seemed to swallow her up as she neared the trees. It was the lack of sound that frightened her the most. No bugs or birds. Just her the shadows, the wind and her.

She winced at every step. Her steps in the silence sounded loud enough to hear from miles away. She took one more look behind her at the light of a candle shimmering from within the two houses and sniffed.

She was better off out there anyway.