“Run,” Sadie whispered, staring wide-eyed at the creature emerging from the lake.
“Where do we go?” Dane asked.
“Just run!” Sadie shouted, turning and pushing the others back away from the lake.
The children turned, trying to run away, but they stopped suddenly. Sadie looked up to see that their path was blocked. Before them was another one, just like the creature rising out of the water. Something they had never seen or heard described before.
It was large, as big as a small car. It had a heavy black and brown carapace like an armored shell that covered its long body. Six thin segmented legs extended from the lower abdomen, bent in half as the monster’s body hung low to the ground.
