Literature
Burning Heaven
Part 21-"How Do You Leave A Loved One Behind?"
"SAAAANNNDRAAAAAAAAA!" Maggie screamed into the spider's burrow. Had Connie and Ellen not been there catch her, she would have gone over the edge after Sandra. "NOOOOOOOOOO! SAAAANDRAAAAAAA! GOD PLEASE... NNOOOOOO!"
Connie and Ellen were trying to process what just happened, even as the much smaller woman kicked and thrashed against them. They dragged themselves away from the mouth of the hole to relative safety underneath a sage bush. Maggie finally wrestled herself free of her friends and fell to her knees, throwing her pack to the ground and clawing at the pebbles around her... screaming in pure, unfiltered anguish. Ellen tried to place a hand on her shoulder only to have Maggie swat it away. Ellen lost control herself and clung to Connie like she could lose her at any moment too.
Connie, usually the pillar of strength among them, was shaking uncontrollably... haunted by the look in Sandra's eyes as the spider tore into
