@chalnsawed cont from here
Landing ass up in a dark, foggy, unrecognizable place was not at the top of Hal’s to-do list today. Actually, it was kind of near the bottom, right under falling off a thirteen story building, but before swallowing a whole pack of thumbtacks. In simpler terms, he was more than a little frustrated with this turn of events. The sight of the Signal Lost, Searching... screen on his call-back device compounded this frustration.
He grit his teeth while he whipped his head around, searching stalks of corn for any sign of life. The darkness was a small mercy, as he didn’t have his shades to protect his sensitive eyes. He tucked his wings right against his back and hunched down a bit as he heard footsteps coming steadily closer. A woman burst out from the rotting plant life, standing in front of him, panting and looking him over.
“The hell are you supposed to be?” She stammered between breaths, in a tone straddling both fear and disgust. That earned a glare from the pale Strider.
“A person? Thanks.” Hal growls back at her, already frustrated, and getting to annoyed. He drew his hand up to his hip, to the pocketknife hanging off one of his belt loops. He made idle conversation with the woman, who gave him short, clipped answers. A deranged killer with a chainsaw. The entity. A game. Generators.
Eventually she shouldered past him and he, fed up with this woman and her annoying voice and his infuriating situation, lashed out with that short little blade, sticking it in her neck with a movement so quick she couldn’t even have moved to defend herself. Blood splatters on the side of his face, and she screams when she falls, before he pins her down and drags his blade through her throat. He stands over the body, wiping his blade on his jeans while he looks around.
He can hear the sound of a chainsaw getting closer. The sound isn’t as scary as it should be. What if he was angry that Hal had stolen his kill?
“You know what they say, once a killer, always a killer.”
Who says that? No one says that. God. That was not smooth. The other “Killer” is lowering his weapon though, that’s a good sign. “Sorry, was she yours? I’m a bit lost, and she was annoying the hell out of me. Didn’t mean to get after something already caught.” His voice is low, he doesn’t like speaking any louder than he has to. He can see the questioning tilt to the other’s head, and tried to give answers as best he could. “Uh, I’m Hal. And I have this thing,” He holds up the wrist with his device on it. “It lets me teleport places, but it looks like it fucked up and spat me out here. Hope I didn’t crash the party.”














