Sera couldn't breathe. The thing she was running from didn't look like anything she'd ever seen before, and she was sure that any second she was going to fall down and then? It would kill her and eat her, because why else would it be chasing her? It was every horror movie she'd ever seen and hadn't quite believed in, it was the monster under the bed, it was the Stephen King story come to life.
In the absolute nick of time, she was yanked inside the c-store, letting out a choked scream as the thing banged into the glass. "Lock it," she said shakily, the voice that emerged from her throat not sounding at all like her own.
Sera's entire body felt cold, and she backed further away from the glass, wrapping her arms around herself. Had she lost her mind? She knew that magic was a thing, thanks to her family and other acquaintances, but this? This was something entirely alien to her understanding.