There is a dim light over the horizon, exotic and red like a jungle.836Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnMaU4glWZm
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.836Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMe5r3FSeXK
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.836Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjxDRvCbtlW
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.836Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp7y1h2CPGR
"Excuse me…can you help?"836Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ99CFr9pq4N
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.836Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡatoEoAWRQs
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?"836Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrx9IwfS2js
She eyes him carefully. "How do I know you won't kill or rape me?"836Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW8HnRm1iWZ
"Oh, please…why would I?" he mutters. "Murder's boring…and rape is repulsive. Can't you just help a struggling bloke?"836Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkiJH7SOnFG
"A bloke? Are you from the UK?"836Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgoBjhNpVcw
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?"836Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiivYoKkl7e
She smiles a little. "Sorry," she apologizes. "I'm just…a little on edge."836Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡycMWtT6TXl
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.836Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv3n10An0CZ
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."836Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3s7MUIyloV
He looks at her strangely. "…What?"836Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHLI56tGZ1J
"Hm?"836Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK7zS1UoLaq
"What did you just say?"836Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrnzsaZmgUw
"Um…let me help you get up," she repeats.836Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOFkT0dzhuJ
"…Oh, now you're helping," he mutters, but he pushes himself out a little as he gets pulled onto the side of the road.836Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡclsh6TUOkQ
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.836Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfV40JRo4UY
"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?"836Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTfZUdgLyUN
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.836Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpRuE0PLq1U
He smiles at her, his eyes watchful as she stares at the wound. "Nothing," he says. "It's just a way to do this."836Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzYIze62DU3
"Do wh—do what?" Karen asks skittishly as she finally manages to drag her eyes away from the horror and to him.836Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGPGa2GDTHc
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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