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“Egara!” I muffled beneath my gag.
It was a mistake as the gag only squeezed tighter and made my jaw groan under the pressure.
Egara came running up the incline and drew the twin shivs he had snatched from the alien twins.
He bellowed and hacked at the vine drawing me upwards.
The vine didn’t stop, didn’t pause to defend itself.
One, two, three swipes, and he’d cut through the vine that’d snatched me in its grip.
I slipped slightly and the vine lost its hold on me.
I wanted to celebrate, to scream and shout in victory but I daren’t do it with the vine wrapped so tightly around my face.
Egara pulled his arm back to hack through the last of the vine when half a dozen others slithered down the incline like snakes.
Two wrapped around his legs, tightening all the way up to his thick waist.
Egara looked over at me before continuing to hack at the vine attached to me.
It snapped and I slid down the sand dune.
The gag in my mouth must have been attached to the main vine as it lost its strength and shriveled from my face.
I yanked it free and spat it out.
I flung my arms and legs out and dug my heels into the sand to prevent myself from sailing further down the incline.
I spun around to face Egara, who swiped at the vines, already latching onto him thickly, completely locking down his legs and preventing him from moving.
He tried to take a step forward but the vines trapped his feet and he lost his balance and fell, hitting the ground.
A dozen other vines slithered toward him but he continued to hack at them one by one.
One snatched his wrist and held it in place.
It wasn’t strong enough to stop him but it slowed him down.
And once he had been slowed, it allowed other vines to move in and catch his powerful arms.
He now only had one arm capable of defending him.
It wasn’t long before his second arm was snatched along with the first and the vines wrapped up his body entirely, lashing him tight so he couldn’t move a muscle.
They pulled him along the ground toward that enormous flower-like alien head and lifted him up into a standing position.
“No!” I yelled from further down the incline.
I got to my feet and stepped forward.
“No!” Egara shouted back at me. “Stay away!”
I froze and peered at the sand beneath my feet and across to the vines that snapped to attention in my direction.
My stomach turned as the giant flower flattened out its enormous petal-like protrusions, forming a giant sail that spread an enormous shadow over the area.
It turned on itself and peered down at the morsel its vines had brought for it.
