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It was so long I couldn’t make out what was at the other end as it disappeared over the rise.
It was leading me toward that disgusting smell, I thought. The stench grew stronger the closer I drew to it.
Whatever it was, I didn’t want to go anywhere near it.
I placed my hands on the vine belt wrapped about my waist and pulled at it.
When that didn’t work, I clawed at the slimy surface with my nails.
I scratched it and in response, it tightened its grip.
“Let go!” I said.
It squeezed harder and sucked the air from my lungs.
I could hardly breathe.
I felt those same panicking breaths I had the day before when I first came to this new environment.
I rolled over and gripped the vine.
I pulled against it and slammed my fists on it.
And still, it continued with that slow relentless journey up the incline.
I peered at the line my ass left in the sand, disappearing over the rise, leading to the sand dunes in the distance.
“Egara!” I yelled. “Egara! Help! Something’s got me! Egara—!”
Another vine—smaller than the main one pulling me up the incline—snaked up from between my breasts and wound around my face.
It gripped my cheeks and pressed hard into my mouth.
I struggled and bit at the vine but it only tightened further.
Finally, fearing it might rip my head from my shoulders, I stopped biting at it.
My breaths rushed through my nose and I could barely draw in one breath before another had to be drawn in to replace it.
Angling my head up to peer at the summit, something began to emerge.
A dozen other tentacles slithered out from the hole at the top of the sand dune, shaped much like a volcano.
From the hole, the largest and most dangerous creature I had ever seen unfolded.
It had the appearance of a giant flower and angled upward, its petals opening at the dawning of a new day.
That giant flower bent over and aimed at me.
It yawned and a huge gaping hole opened wide.
And still that vine drew me up the incline.
I was going to be this thing’s lunch!
Tears streamed from my eyes, more in shock than anything else
“Agatha!” a familiar voice bellowed from the lower horizon.
