Iara watched as the creature stopped, holding still for several moments before moving towards her again, slower this time, it's posture more...cautious, somehow.
It occurred to her, somewhat belatedly, that this was perhaps a hallucination of some kind, the onset of a more serious delirium. She kind of hoped that it might be, though that would be a pretty bad sign as to her state, but well. Better to treat this as real if it was a hallucination, then assume it was a hallucination if it was, in fact, real.
She swallowed as the thing drew closer, her throat painfully dry, and sat up a bit straighter. Everything was still spinning. Definitely vertigo. Still, she needed to think. Options. She could try to run, but, fuck that, she'd get nowhere. She probably couldn't do much to it, with no weapons and dizzy as she was, but if it was going to attack her she'd rather go down fighting than just give up. If she was lucky, maybe its teeth or claws would slide harmlessly off her skin the way bullets did and she could just...wait for it to lose interest and go away. For a moment, she wondered if her corpse would still be as invulnerable to scavengers if she died, but no, focus, she had to focus. Ok, plan: see what it does; if it attacks and she's not invulnerable, try to fight it off.
The creature continued to approach, stopping right next to her. She shifted to meet it's eyes, watching cautiously as it gave her a sniff. Fuck, her heart was pounding even more rapidly now than it had been earlier.
"I think you might find eating me harder than it looks," she said, mostly for her own amusement, coughing a bit as she finished the words. Her voice was quiet, accent mostly Australian though some might recognize a bit of something else, inflections from some other tongue on the edges of some of her vowels.
It occurred to her, somewhat belatedly, that this was perhaps a hallucination of some kind, the onset of a more serious delirium. She kind of hoped that it might be, though that would be a pretty bad sign as to her state, but well. Better to treat this as real if it was a hallucination, then assume it was a hallucination if it was, in fact, real.
She swallowed as the thing drew closer, her throat painfully dry, and sat up a bit straighter. Everything was still spinning. Definitely vertigo. Still, she needed to think. Options. She could try to run, but, fuck that, she'd get nowhere. She probably couldn't do much to it, with no weapons and dizzy as she was, but if it was going to attack her she'd rather go down fighting than just give up. If she was lucky, maybe its teeth or claws would slide harmlessly off her skin the way bullets did and she could just...wait for it to lose interest and go away. For a moment, she wondered if her corpse would still be as invulnerable to scavengers if she died, but no, focus, she had to focus. Ok, plan: see what it does; if it attacks and she's not invulnerable, try to fight it off.
The creature continued to approach, stopping right next to her. She shifted to meet it's eyes, watching cautiously as it gave her a sniff. Fuck, her heart was pounding even more rapidly now than it had been earlier.
"I think you might find eating me harder than it looks," she said, mostly for her own amusement, coughing a bit as she finished the words. Her voice was quiet, accent mostly Australian though some might recognize a bit of something else, inflections from some other tongue on the edges of some of her vowels.
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