Michael's Texas Embrace

The darkness moved before them.  Lyle's flashlight brought forth the flash of two eyes peering from the gloom.  The creature moved.  Callista saw a snout and fur.  A long shaggy grey body broke left and into darkness.  

Lyle spun and fired.  His bullets hit the wall, but before the light and the deafening shots, a form dropped to the floor and squealed—a high keening.  Then the thing froze and trembled against the wall.

Before them cowered the strangest thing Callista had ever seen.  It was small, perhaps seventy or eighty pounds, roughly four feet in length, and covered in fur.  The creature pressed itself into the corner and whimpered like an injured dog.  And Callista thought that perhaps it was a dog, until it turned its face to the light.

# posted by Michael : 9:09 PM