It had been all her all along

He's still alive, right?

What did she do to him?

Panic for both Neil and me were consuming me inside out, so hard, that I could not stop the tears from pouring down my reddened cheeks. "Why are you bringing Neil into this?" I sobbed, angry and pained and scared at the same time. "If Tina sent you to kill me, please leave him out of it. He knows nothing about this."

She shifted the gun to me and signaled me to straighten up again. I was too scared of finding out what she would do this time if I rebelled, so I obeyed, watching her move silently towards one of the rocks lining the pool. She reached behind it and hauled out a black object that seemed like a bag with so many straps. She moved back to me and slapped it roughly over my head, yanking down my body like some kind of bulletproof vest.

I knew this was not something any normal human would want on their body.