Land of the Blind, Part 10

10 – Cosmonaut If his adrenaline wasn’t surging before, it was now, as Roan plunged into the front room, a beehive of panicked activity as people ran, hid, fought, or just desperately tried to escape. The place smelled of fear and blood, and the lion was dying to burst out of his skin and join the party. The leopard was long but scrawny, suggesting he’d been  a thin male, but not so thin that he couldn’t throw around two hundred pound men like beanbags. Roan had to fight his way through the throng and roared, as much a challenge as the cat version of “Get out of the fucking way”, and he made some women scream while the panic ratcheted upwards. He was aware the bathroom door was hanging by a single hinge, and right in front of it the...

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