Chapter 22 stalking satyr
Rohan kept walking in a zigzag pattern, going in a right street for a while and then back left. Sometimes making a full circle, or just entering a public building, which wasn't very common far in the inner city.
After half an hour Rohan took a break at a bus stop, sitting down slightly covered he drank some water. Looking down the street both ways he checked if the satyr had followed him, but he couldn't see it.
Rohan took a few minutes to recover, just as he was about to get he felt the hair on his back stand up. He looked at the bus stop on the other side of the road that would go the other way. There it was, the satyr with red eyes staring at him. It had the exact same clothing and sat like any human would on a bus stop.
This time the satyr was moving. It was moving its jaws, like it was eating something. It didn't loose focus of Rohan at all, keeping its dark red eyes on Rohan.
Rohan felt the sweat drip from his head. He slowly moved his hand to the gun, taking it his right hand while keeping his eyes on the satyr.
Rohan aimed the gun at the satyr, but it didn't move or stop chewing. Maybe it didn't know what a gun was and what it could do.
Rohan's breathing was getting rough, he was unsure if this was the best choice. He aimed at the satyr chest and pulled the trigger.
He felt the recoil and tried to watch the course of the bullet. It went straight through the glass bus stop panel and shattered it.
The satyr had disappeared faster than the bullet flew.
Glass kept clinging on the ground as Rohan got up. He was goosebumps all over his body as he started to run back to Britta and Leslie. He did get closer, but he was going in a circle, instead of a straight line.
Shaking of the satyr would be impossible, Rohan couldn't even kill it with a direct shot so he wouldn't stand a chance fighting it alone.
Rohan kept looking around him like he was paranoid, maybe he was actually paranoid but he had bigger problems. He couldn't find the satyr again, so he sat down again at the next street.
Sure enough the satyr appeared again right in front of him. Exactly the same as before, no wound or blood to see. Rohan aimed his gun again and shot at the satyr. Again it disappeared instantly.
Rohan waited for a minute, and the satyr appeared again just as fast as he could blink.
He now felt more confused than scared as he got up and walked away, keeping his eyes on the satyr. He slowly made his way back to the security building, passing some stores and shopping streets his quickly didn't see the satyr anymore.
It took Rohan half an hour to get close to Britta and Leslie. They had decided that if there was a problem, he would take the front door, if everything was normal he would go through the backdoor, by which he left.
Rohan sat right in front of the building on the side of the fence until he saw the satyr appear again on the other side. Rohan got up from the fence as he walked to the main entrance of the building, keeping his eyes focused on the satyr. He knocked on the door loudly as he pushed it open.
He didn't hear anything as he opened both doors fully and locked them in place. He walked slowly backwards as he checked if Britta and Leslie were close.
"Rohan, what's the problem?" he heard Britta ask from a room on the side.
"There is a satyr following me that is faster than I can shoot. It only appears when I sit down for a break and keeps staring at me, its sitting on the other side of the road out of the front door."
Britta looked outside "Its just one of them?"
"Yeah, but a fast one"
Rohan closed to doors and walked to Britta, she was looking out of the window, staring angry at the satyr.
"This makes it more complicated, we need to leave now and get back to emerald's view" Britta decided quickly. They weren't sure if the satyr would go back or just keep following them. Rohan quickly told Britta what he found out in the southeastern park of inner city.
She didn't give much of a reaction and sounded very serious. "Let's go back to Fiora"
They picked up Leslie and left via the backdoor. Britta checked the satyr at the front door, but he had disappeared again.
Leslie led them back via the quickest route, but after 5 minutes of walking they heard the bellowing of a goat horn from a good distance behind them.
"Fuck, we need to run" Britta looked a little bit panicked but mostly mad as Rohan looked behind him to see where the sound was coming from.
They started running while Leslie led them up front. They would take try to find an open building to enter and hide in, but it was very hard to find them in the inner city. The closest thing they found was a "public" library, filled with books of rich people. They quickly entered the ground floor and went up a couple stories.
Looking outside over the streets Rohan couldn't see much difference with before. But then he heard more bellowing horn sounds, this time there was a rhythm to them. It kept going for a few minutes before it ended. Not long after that he looked out of the window and saw a couple groups of satyrs moving deeper into the inner city.
They were all called back to the horn sound.
"This is the first time I've heard this, Fiora, Ragnar and Jan should be safe in Emerald's view. When the coast is clear we move quickly." Britta looked at Leslie and Rohan, she looked confident. Leslie had said that is should take half an hour to get back.