About Me
Around her there are already screams and shouts.She’s lucky that her tent wasn’t on the edge of the camp.Some are burning there already, probably with the people still inside, and there’s the sweet stench of petrol.It will be several minutes yet until everyone in this camp even knows what’s happening, and that it is not an accident or a generator fire.Through the tents, by the red glow of the fire, she glimpses a short, squat woman setting a flame with the spark from her hands.The flash lights her face white for an instant.The kind of face her dad would have said was a bad bet for business.Never keep someone on a job who likes it too much.She knows when she sees the single flash of that gleeful and hungry face that they’re not here to raid for what they can find.They’re not here for anything that can be given.They go tent to tent, pulling them down or setting them on fire so the occupants have to run out or burn.They’re not neat about it, not methodical.She was right to send Tunde into the forest.They overwhelm her easily, and kill her with a particular brutality.One of them grabs the woman by the hair and the other delivers a bolt directly through the woman’s eyes.Finger and thumb pressed against her eyeballs, the very liquid of them scrambled to a milky white.Even Roxy has to look away for a moment.She backs further into the forest, climbs a tree hand over hand, using a loop of rope to help her.By the time she’s found a crisscross place where three branches meet, they have turned their attention to the man.He will not stop screaming.Two of the women take him by the throat and send a paralysis into his spine.One squats on top of him.She pulls off his trousers.He is not unconscious.His eyes are wide and glistening.He is struggling for breath.Another of the men tries to rush forward to help him and gets a crack to the temple for his trouble.The woman on top cups his balls and dick in her palm.The others laugh, too.She tickles him there with the tip of a finger, making a little crooning sound, as if she wants him to enjoy it.They might have broken his windpipe already.