25314 / 30000 — sometimes I wonder if my sense of humor is being conveyed properly
He’d heard the shriek and watched Johnny chase after it, running up and over the rubble fast enough to make him feel a pang of jealousy and self-loathing. After a short debate between his heart, mind and bum leg, Galen decided to wait and see. In a few minutes the Effacer would stomp back over the hill and let him know what was going on. If that didn’t happen, maybe then it’d be a good idea to go investigate.
Confirming his assumption, Johnny did return shortly after—his body arcing cleanly through the air and landing atop the fallen trees with a sickening thump. He bounced once off the bare trunk of a red oak, then lay still on the ground. Limp as a ragdoll.
