Carla
When the Empusa laughed, Carla froze. Whispered voices echoed through the cave, but she couldn't decipher the words. She'd reached the back of the cavern, but there was nothing except blackness. How was she supposed to find the way out when it was pitch black?
She stumbled and caught herself on a jagged piece of rock.
Her breath rushed out in pants. "Carla, run," Ty yelled.
Without waiting, she dashed ahead as an eerie sensation crawled down her spine. The kind she used to get as a child when her mom told her there were no boogeymen, until Zarna showed up and slaughtered her family. Carla blinked back tears.
No, this time she would not flee like a frightened kid, so far and fast that the men who toiled for her enemy couldn't find her. This time, she would fight. Would the vamp protection spell work against this creature?