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he
lurched in drunkenly, grabbing about in the dark for one of them.
Catching one by the hind leg, he groped his way out again.
Thrusting his shoulders forward he slid through the gripping mud,
tearing his way through the engulfing rain with his free hand. His leg
left numb from the wound inflicted by the barbed wire, and a trickle of
blood was running down his shins. Without thinking he reached down
to rub the wound, but quickly yanked his hand up again. What was that
horrible sensation he felt as he passed his hand over the fleshy sore? He
couldn't see in the rain, but his leg told him that it was something hairy,

almost bristly.
He ran on towards the house, stumbling in the treacherous mud. Once
he fell completely down in the slime. Wiping the dripping earth from
his face, he was told again that something was wrong. His cheeks
verified his shin's story of a rough, jagged caress.
Holding his hand in front of his face he saw, amidst a flash of lightning,
a curling, black claw, bristling with long, ragged hairs. Screaming
hysterically he dropped the kid and fell forward into the door of the
house. The latch gave way with his weight and he tumbled into the
cottage.
Dancing madly on the end of a thread was a blood red feather.

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