The Tracks 09/07/24 Freedom    “Jacob!”    He could hardly see, his frantic eyes finding terrifying shapes of imaginary men outlined in the tapestry of forest leaves flying past.    “Jacob, stop! ”    Her words didn't register. Time, that's what they needed. To put as much time and space between them and the creature as possible. The cold wind stung against the tears on his skin and his feet fell harder and faster as they fled further away from the empty city.    “Jacob — ”    Suddenly his...

The Candle Of The Wicked 09/07/24 One hour to sacrifice    Jacob slipped out of the armory and obsessively checked his watch. Six o'clock exactly, almost time to move. His tense muscles trembled from nerves as he tried to look like he was walking as casually as possible through the sparsely-populated jail corridors towards the cell block, simultaneously sneaking his hand into his pocket and leaving the remote trigger he had just acquired safely inside.    As a building, Dawson City Jail had...

Recompense 09/06/24 One day to sacrifice    Every moment after was a daze. They ducked under the steel entrance to Dawson City Jail and separated almost immediately, leaving him standing solitary and outcast amidst the disorganized grounds as they dragged Diana Koh away to her waiting cell for slaughter.    Jacob Porter gradually moved about the campus, nearly invisible to the other inmates around him, his mind swimming in dreadful thought. He didn't want  to think, but the fresh memory of...