There is a dim light over the horizon, exotic and red like a jungle.1209Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3ez0TySQT9
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.1209Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWxE3Y03M7C
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.1209Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtzsgyUcKwE
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.1209Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIt1lspTiXh
"Excuse me…can you help?"1209Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ30sXiqFEia
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.1209Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFGo187hcZL
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?"1209Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGtUNUT89Xd
She eyes him carefully. "How do I know you won't kill or rape me?"1209Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUAZMs4Rp66
"Oh, please…why would I?" he mutters. "Murder's boring…and rape is repulsive. Can't you just help a struggling bloke?"1209Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi9qD0CUSet
"A bloke? Are you from the UK?"1209Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYCxg4itvrl
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?"1209Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡahXqMtI5xA
She smiles a little. "Sorry," she apologizes. "I'm just…a little on edge."1209Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7AXiM5Vc9G
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.1209Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbDBcH4jx5p
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."1209Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ71dCgdf4nE
He looks at her strangely. "…What?"1209Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqgtoC4ytGk
"Hm?"1209Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVpYz1OsJBC
"What did you just say?"1209Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOvlueFrzk1
"Um…let me help you get up," she repeats.1209Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbwrPY7K0bC
"…Oh, now you're helping," he mutters, but he pushes himself out a little as he gets pulled onto the side of the road.1209Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJJ3Voj4m7T
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.1209Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEIvbUC8Zx1
"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?"1209Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUe3t2mwFFC
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.1209Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9sQ3E2J3Kz
He smiles at her, his eyes watchful as she stares at the wound. "Nothing," he says. "It's just a way to do this."1209Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBC5mVmrnDe
"Do wh—do what?" Karen asks skittishly as she finally manages to drag her eyes away from the horror and to him.1209Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu7A7noRtTk
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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