Chapter 103 LAUGHING HYENAS

My feet fell on a hard surface, and I kept walking. The ground was flat, like the surface of a football pitch, and I kept walking without any interruption. I walked for about ten minutes before I heard the sound.

It was loud, and croaky. The sound of a crocodile, or an animal I had never known before. It came from behind me, closing in fast, about to snap its jaws on me. I was as frightening as sitting on an atomic bomb.

I wanted to open my eyes. Just to see what was going on, and to scream out my lungs.

That would be the wrong thing to do, I thought. That would be the end of me. I was sure the moment I opened my eyes, the thing with the horrible sound behind me will become real and devour me.

I kept walking and the sounds kept following me like my footsteps. I heard the howling of hyenas after that sound, and then the hissing of snakes all over me after the hyenas.

Then I heard the gunshots—loud and deafening—and close to my ears.

I shivered in fear, but I refused to open my eyes.

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