The Namrok
Guttering wind had stolen her candle light only moments before; Bella stood hoping like hell that dawn was not far off. There were skittering noises in the distance but the worst thing she could do was run. She calmed her ragged breath. The Namrok had been known to attack those who maintained stillness but had panic attacks. She closed her eyes; it made no difference to the impenetrable gloom, but it made her feel better.
Ten years ago no one had heard of the Namrok. Well, not in a way that any adult would ever have belived. Ten years ago she had been a lab tech with a promising career but that was before the rift, before the Namrok had taken back the realm they maintained was theirs. It was a shame they had rendered electronics useless as Bella would have swapped her very soul for a torch. Her breathing sounded harsh in her ears; she trembled and caught herself. No movement, that was the key – they were predators, and without her flame she was the prey.
A frozen rabbit, and if the Namrok caught her a fate worse than dinner awaited. She swallowed involuntarily. Angry with herself, she opened her eyes; a faint brusing had entered the sky. It was getting lighter, dawn! She may survive yet!
She exhaled in relief and the scuttling noise stopped. They were listening now – they knew she was there, and they would be clicking at each other to pin point her. She wanted to scream, wanted to run. With extreme hardship she pushed down the whimper that pushed at her, counting in her mind whilst straining her ears, desperately listening. Time seemed to stretch and she was cold, the roll of… parchment in her hand seemed to burn into her in contrast.
She had no idea if it was valuable or not, but they had just left it there and the flame should have protected her to her home, but there had been no lamps left and she had been too eager to get home and away from the dark. The scrittering noise had started up again, they would be moving in a slow circle around her, trapping her, but the sky was pearlised with precious sunlight now.
Unless she was very unlucky she would survive. The lighter it got the blinder they got, and fear of light would drive them away before long. But now she could see their forms, large and shapeless, at the edge of a large circle; and there were a lot of them, seeming to condense out of the night, little grey points of reflective light – and the smell. Sweet, sickly, sour, rotting meat – it clogged her nostrils and made her gag. They rose in a wave. She screamed and dropped down into a ball as a long, flicking talon scythed the air above her.
‘I’m dead’ she whimpered, waiting for the next blow, but the sun was tinging the sky rose and peach and they where wailing in a forlorn and alien way. The danger was not past, though as they know where she was. She used the confusion to duck and dive amoungst them, dreading the claws; few had seen the Namrok and lived to tell. Bella panted hard with fright once outside their circle and then she ran.
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Bella was throwing up outside the Den, that had been too close, she had to stop this, but someone had to try and stop the Namrok. Viktor opened the metal door, with talon scratches all over it. ‘Close call?’ he asked, wrinkling his nose as she nodded and puked some more. He shouted for tea and warm water to those below and then took the parchment from her. ‘This is skin… ‘ he said, paling. She nodded, not trusting herself to speak.
‘I will get Anna to translate it.’ and he was gone into the gloom. She wondered briefly if she should have mentioned that the letters would be written in the victim’s own blood. Her stomach flipped again and she sunk down the wall instead. There would be parties going out to retrieve more supplies, candles, food; that type of thing.
She felt a bit better after cleaning up and drinking her tea, Viktor was pacing the small room he called HQ central. ‘Are you sure, Anna?’ Anna nodded, Bella slipped herself into a vacant chair. ‘This is not good, can we stop them?’
Anna hesitated, ‘Maybe, I do not know. Bella may, though.’
Bella froze, ‘Wha.. what’s it say then?’ she asked.
‘They are planning on blotting out the sun so there will be no dawn to rescue us.’ Bella’s stomach flipped once more.
‘They have some scientists held captive…’ She was already nodding, knowing full well she would not be getting any sleep.
‘It’s my lab isn’t it? They are are going to trigger one of the super volcanoes!’ The others nodded. The dust from the eruption, smoke, soot and ash would clog the sky. It would become cold and dark, and in the dark the Namrok were supreme.
They began planning Mission Abort Vulcan.
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