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Chapter 4 - Caçada

Several howls spread throughout the immense city, the height made me feel a certain pressure... or was it fear?

Julian and I started running towards one of the exits of the building, I heard a howl in that direction, we ran looking for another exit when we heard glass breaking.

'They came in through the window!'

I look at Julian for some form or thought that could save us when he looks towards a large hole in the wall that I remember led straight into a stream that crossed the entire coast of the city, I remember ending in a waterfall with a brutal fall that would certainly kill us.

I widen my eyes at the idea and start to shake my head desperately when he smiles provocatively at me and suddenly starts running towards the hole.

"No fucking way"

moments before jumping into the hole he screams

"I'M HERE!!"

My heart starts to pump with adrenaline and the fear of being torn apart by wolves was greater than the uncertainty of jumping

I hear several growls and howls that sound like a symphony of death as I close my eyes and jump from the large drop between the hole and the stream.

Ploftt

I fell into the creek and began to sink, for the first time regretting being alive, as all the air was forced from my lungs.

I clung to a beam as if my life depended on it as the current of water dragged me, forcing my weight downwards, making the wood creak.

Crack crack

'Fuck! It's cracking

I hear a lot of growls around me and despair takes over as the wolves follow me along the river coast

'There are so many'

Despair takes over me when I hear one of the wolves crying, I look around to try to understand what happened when something hits my neck, I feel my consciousness waver when I black out...

I open my eyes urgently when I feel a light a little far away, I look down and see several people walking normally as if it were an ordinary day.

'What do I do?

'I mean with all these people I certainly can't get away from here, and I don't even know where I am'

Moving to look around caused the balance of the prison I was in to shift, swaying my prison and attracting the attention of some people looking at me from a distance. 

Then I saw a tall man with paint all over his body and face, and in his hands a wooden straw with a few holes in the side.

I felt all the hostility coming from him causing me to flinch and take steps back unconsciously, a few minutes passed but it felt like hours.

The silence running through my mind making me imagine him killing me in the worst way possible

when he realizes I'm about to scream abruptly

comes close to the cell, looks at me and puts his finger on his mouth asking for silence

'silence?'

I hear a whistle as the big jailer in front of me gets up and starts walking down the stairs to where I was being held.

I look around the cell and after a while I realize that all the people in this place don't speak, they simply use signs,

'didn't anyone teach them?'