Jordan pressed his back against Dayton’s ankle as he saw the mosquito fly back toward him. As his eyes rolled from left to right he frantically looked for a way out before staring up at the massive body of body of Dayton which seemingly continued up farther and more dauntingly than the body of any twelve-year-old should. He looked squarely at the mosquito he as his mind continued to run through every possibility he could come up with on how his life could turn out he finally turned around and slapped the back of Dayton’s ankle Jordan knew that he had nowhere to go. He looked briefly once again from left to light and contemplated jumping from Dayton’s shoe at the last moment but in the back of his mind, he feared hurting himself. Even the drop from Dayton’s shoe to the floor was quite the distance at his current height. A person just doesn’t casually decide to jump up the roof of their house.
The ground trembled while Nicolle swept her foot across the grass taking another step while the voices of both Nicolle and Dayton boomed and clapped like thunder overhead. Jordan contemplated yelling for help but he was so far beneath the girls he knew his voice wouldn’t carry well enough from him to be heard. It would be about as effective as pissing into the wind. As his shrunken vocal cords just didn’t have enough power.
Looking back at the mosquito Jordan stood his ground watching it fly faster and faster toward him. He figured he would try ducking at the last minute and if that didn’t work jumping onto back the mosquito. Perhaps he could rip its wings off. As the mosquito drew closer and closer he felt a massive gust of wind followed by the loudest slap he had ever heard.
In a flash, a wall of tan flesh sped past him faster than he could comprehend. He heard the slap of Nicolle’s hand against Dayton’s leg before he ever saw it. The force of her slap displaced enough wind to send him tumbling over the side of Dayton’s shoe back towards the grassy floor.
Dayton instinctively lifted the back of her foot as Jordan saw her foot rise above and over him. The air displacement was sucking him beneath her shoe but Nicolle took her free hand and snatched him out of the air. The warm powerful grip of Nicolle’s fingers encircled him. The tightness of her grip told Jordan he wouldn’t be able to squirm out but at the moment he found himself not wanting to for the first time. Jordan felt himself ascend as he saw the bloody mess of deadly mosquito splayed across Dayton’s ankle. He watched as he watched her swipe the insect’s remains away with two fingers which she then wiped off in the grass. As she pulled her fingers away any remains of the killer were gone.
An insect capable of killing him with ease. Able to drain his body dry of blood in seconds was just killed, discarded, and seemingly vanished in a blink of an eye. It was terrifying how much larger even these tweenage girls were and Sara was on another level than them.
Jordan visibly shuddered at the thought. As he continued to ascend he looked down at the grassy jungle he was thrown into the depths of. It moved further and further away till it looked like an unthreatening sea of green. It was sickening that the grass that towered above him wasn’t even taller than their shoes. He watched their footsteps crush more ground than he could move across in a dead sprint. A whole world with a thriving ecosystem some alive beneath their feet and they unknowingly walked through it ravaging a world they will never know.
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