shade

I am continuing a story I began a few days ago (this is part five). You can find parts one and two and three and four if you are interested

They came out of the shadows almost as soon as we had left the building.

No. They were the shadows.

Before Chip could raise his devise, a Shade had touched him and he shivered, crumpled and the life force fled from his broken body. Marie, and I, faced them, back to back.

We had been trained for this, I tried to remind myself. We can beat them.

The Shades feared light, and we had light. Marie pulled a lamp from her pocket, I had my device in my hand the torch function shining at the creatures as the circled us. They flinched when the light touched them, shrieked with pain if we could keep the beam focused for more than a few seconds.

The Shades began to retreat, as Marie and I inched forward, out backs still touching, our eyes darting around us, trying to see into the darkness, searching for the deathly creatures.

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As usual I started with the freewrite prompt and used themostdangerouswritingapp.com to write the first five minutes (and then popped it into google docs to check for errors and tidy it up a bit):