a sharp rock and felt the pain in her head. She woke up and groaned. He

runted and rubbed the sides o

t didn't enter the cave. "But how did I get here?" she asked herself. She remembered waking up on the sand shore, but that was all she rememb

ling, and walked out of the cave. She looked around and

by the sea," she thought. She looked back at the ca

ure out where she had lain. She was looking straight ahead all t

ain. She looked down and saw her body print on the sand, and

there? The monster part was a drea

looked, and her eyes widened in horror and bewilderment. It was

ead and saw the footprint moving up and into the cave. The cave she had woken up from. The ca

he was in for trouble. She never imagined dying in such a brutal way. As dinner for a non-human. "Oh no! This is not happening." "Staying on the ship would have been better. Being sold as a slave would have been better," she cried. She looked around for any sign of the monster. Everywhere was empty and quiet except for the normal beach noise. Avril began to walk away, walking in the opposite direction of the cave and the foot marks that led to it. Anywhere she didn't see its footprint, there she went. She kept walking and looking back until she got really tired and hungry. She groaned and sat on the sand, watching the waves. Her life began to reflect on her

The pain from her new injury was seeping in through her leg; it was still covere

high above the ground and fly whenever and wherever they liked. If

k water from the ground, t

s and plants. She began to walk towards them. They should at least be one fruit tree among them. As she walked, she hea

n and let out a sharp cry. She immediately covered her mouth and looked around. She didn't want to alert the monster. She bent down and held her toe, then pulled out the thorn carefully with pain. The toe began to hurt even more, and she gritted her teeth and tried to avert the involuntary tears. Her blo

tall and huge, but since it wasn't pruned, the branches were all about and some close to the ground. She moved to a branch and pulled a ripe mango until it plucked from the branch. The fruit was so big. She had never seen on

d worries. Soon after, she dropped the seed and plucked another. It was consumed in less than five minutes. Then she plucked a

d another mango, and wanted to move forward to look around more. Then her eyes caught hold of it, in a tree up ab

lert its prey. Avril gulped down and moved backwards. She threw the fruit at the creature's face, and it growled angrily at her. She jerked backwards, screamed, and fell. Im