There is a dim light over the horizon, exotic and red like a jungle.737Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxMothr3Tbi
Karen isn't above admiring it, she enjoys nature. She stares at it with contempt, though. It is such a fleeting sight, she thinks, and always will be. Nothing can stop a sunset from going away…and the beauties last no more than an hour.737Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoHswDYZKtY
Regardless, she walks towards it. The dirt road is stretching far, and she has a long way to go to get to her boyfriend's house, but it hasn't stopped her before. He owns a home further down the way, lined with ditches full of pesticides and waste from his vast fields of apples. She's felt disdain towards it before, and has always expressed it, but whoever cares anymore? He says global warming is inevitable, and will happen regardless of pollution and environmental poisoning but she doesn't believe that.737Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMrhOGLkjyp
Nobody is here to stop the monstrosity. Not so personally, at least, and Karen is a journalist. She takes things personally. It's a dangerous match, and she agrees now. They are too different, and this walk is to make that statement.737Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUMieSwMwhN
"Excuse me…can you help?"737Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRy15KytV34
Karen blinks and looks to her right where that voice came from. She stops walking and trails over to the edge, and is…ambiguously surprised to see a young homeless man lying on the side of a ditch looking quite miserable. "Are you alright?" she questions him.737Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6xOTEFR3Yn
He rubs his eyes and hums thoughtfully. "I've no clue," he replies dryly. "'ve only got a horrible headache and hurt ankle. Care to help me?"737Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY3wUKHCgLq
She eyes him carefully. "How do I know you won't kill or rape me?"737Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeC1ZaZF2hq
"Oh, please…why would I?" he mutters. "Murder's boring…and rape is repulsive. Can't you just help a struggling bloke?"737Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6oAtU4KSls
"A bloke? Are you from the UK?"737Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHWABjS9KAc
He sighs and looks up at her with hazel blue eyes that shine slightly more green in light of the sunset. "I'm stuck in a ditch with a twisted ankle, and you're worried about my nationality?"737Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmzC5tF6mlP
She smiles a little. "Sorry," she apologizes. "I'm just…a little on edge."737Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbq7aApzCHK
He makes a sound of discontent, and rolls his eyes. "Fine, I'll just walk all by myself then," he grumbles sarcastically as he slowly sits up with a loud and dramatic groan.737Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDenTHgLsQE
Karen can't stop a little chuckle as she leans over the edge and reaches out to help him. "Here," she says, "let me help you wake up."737Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN1Vq9n9OP5
He looks at her strangely. "…What?"737Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9zHtVtMtAf
"Hm?"737Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡypFqpvnwSM
"What did you just say?"737Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtMPtzBo4IM
"Um…let me help you get up," she repeats.737Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8DnQwVjzun
"…Oh, now you're helping," he mutters, but he pushes himself out a little as he gets pulled onto the side of the road.737Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoUoEYSCm2J
She almost immediately gasps and jumps in shock and fear at the sight of his ankle, but his hand keeps an astute grip on her arm and she can't back away. His ankle is bloodied, and blue and purple and swollen quite horribly. But that isn't what alarms her to such a state. There is a long and ugly gash that ripped through his same leg, and it is still bleeding…quite heavily.737Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjwiHtgNwEg
"I know, right?" He speaks as if the revelation hadn't changed anything. "A bit tedious, really. I'll have to go to a hospital…say, do you have a phone, miss?"737Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2U4f7d5y5g
She looks at him with wide brown eyes, chest heaving as she panted out her shock. "Y-ye—yeah, yeah. Yeah. I-I do…I do…oh, my god…what, what happened?" she stammers out.737Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2cenQX9uhK
He smiles at her, his eyes watchful as she stares at the wound. "Nothing," he says. "It's just a way to do this."737Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsx55g4jhkU
"Do wh—do what?" Karen asks skittishly as she finally manages to drag her eyes away from the horror and to him.737Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAyednqMAI6
Her eyes don't meet those gentle and sarcastic hazel blue orbs she saw earlier. Instead, they meet the single barrel of a hand gun, and she doesn't have a second longer to process it before her vision blackens as a result of a projectile ripping through her skull.
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