A Chance
Ruby hardened her stomach and held her breath to suppress the excruciating pain that she was feeling inside her mouth.
She felt as though something was tearing her gums from the inside. She wanted to open her mouth and scream at the top of her lungs. But she didn’t want to lose her only chance at running away. She didn’t want the vampires to get air that something was happening to her at the moment.
Slowly, her vision started to come back. And the pain in her mouth also began to soothe. She ran the tip of her tongue over her teeth to find that almost all of her teeth were sharper than before.
When she was still confused about how her teeth changed, all of a sudden, a gust of wind came in and she felt like vomiting. She could smell hundreds of vampires, all at once.
A drop of sweat trickled down from her forehead to the tip of her nose. And it dripped down to the dusty ground.
‘I’m really close to that Isolation Center, aren’t I?’ she questioned herself.