Chapter 23 Leave now
After 10 minutes the last satyr groups disappeared around the corner or were too far down the street to be visible.
"Come, we move now" Britta signaled them
They had used the little time they had to recover some energy.
Getting outside Leslie quickly led them back to Emerald's view. They didn't encounter any satyr on the way and managed to make it back in 20 minutes. The stalking satyr did not show up anymore, which made Rohan anxious while also relieved, it might still be hiding after all.
Reaching the Emerald's view, Britta saw Fiora stand in the entrance.
"What happened? You are all okay?" Fiora quickly asked Britta as they entered the building.
"I'll explain it to the rest, get them down." Britta ordered Fiora as Rohan sat on a chair resting and Leslie slumped down on the ground. Britta looked to be fine, but also a bit exhausted.
When Ragnar and Jan got down Britta and Rohan quickly filled them in on what had happened further in the inner city. Rohan told them what he had seen in the park, and about the stalking satyr.
Fiora had also heard the sound of the goat horn and quickly hid with Ragnar and Jan. They didn't see that many satyr groups pass the building.
"We should go back" Leslie was the first to break the silence after they were all caught up. Fiora's team didn't make any discoveries.
"We should stay here for a while, now they all went back to the central part, but they will most likely return as well, it's even more shit if we catch them at that point." Ragnar was against moving out, as it could result in being caught in the open.
Fiora sighed "It will come down to a vote, who wants to leave now?"
Rohan raised his hand, he felt that the chances were better leaving now instead of waiting. Leslie and Jan raised there hands and Fiora agreed with them. Only Ragnar and Britta wanted to stay at Emerald's view.
"We leave now" Britta said as she saw the majority wanted to leave. Ragnar and Britta didn't complain.
"Alright lets move quick" Ragnar packed up Jan's stuff as the rest got ready
"We move fast, don't scout too much for enemies, just signal ahead if you see any" Britta went out the door first with Leslie behind her. He had quickly put up a route for them to follow, that should take them to the same bridge as before. Hopefully it was still empty.
They moved out quickly and with 6 of them they were able to cover a lot of ground and streets. There were no satyrs anywhere on the streets or in the buildings. It was eerily quiet.
Right as they reached the bridge they crossed on the way, they saw a big group of satyrs. There seemed to be a couple dozen, maybe even close to a hundred.
"What is this horde?" Leslie asked Britta, but she didn't have an answer for it.
"Hold up here" Britta stopped them in their tracks. The bridge was a couple hundred meters further so they could remain unseen.
"Jan and Leslie what do you see?" Britta asked them to scout out the bridge with binoculars. Although Rohan had them as well, they weren't as good.
Leslie gave answers first "All of them are stragglers and unarmed mostly… they are gathered at a couple places and pushing and shoving others. Oh…" Leslie chocked up a bit as he tried to say more. But Jan stopped him
"It's best to see for yourself" Jan responded as he gave his binoculars to Britta
Rohan checked out the bridge with his own binoculars. He found the groups fast, there were a couple at the end of the bridge but most were located at the beginning of the bridge, surrounding a specific spot where some stragglers were fighting one another.
The satyrs that were killed by Rohan and his team laid in the center of the ring by the satyrs. Some of them were crouching next to them and had a knife or sword in their hands, cutting open the dead satyrs or taking the arms and legs off.
They were all cannibalizing on their comrades, or maybe he couldn't call them comrades anymore.
The stragglers were fighting for the best food, while others on the side would try and take parts of the dead to eat. Intestines were ripped, eyes popped, hearts torn and legs torn, every straggler was trying to take the food. Rohan didn't expect them to be carnivores, but starvation could do many things.
Rohan kept watching as a fighting straggler fell to the ground, it was killed by another and added to the foodpile. They didn't care at all and kept eating. Bones would fly to the back and taken by weaker stragglers. All of them were consumed by hunger.
Rohan saw deep red eyes in all of the satyrs, they were too focused on what was in front of them and hadn't seen him. Suddenly one of the satyrs looked up, right at Rohan and the team, it looked oddly healthy.
Feeling the shivers and goosebumps on his back Rohan rubbed his eyes. The satyr disappeared but the feeling didn't. He looked behind him and there it was… the stalking satyr was standing a few meters behind the group. It had followed Rohan to the bridge.
"Guys we got a problem, the stalking satyr is back." Rohan called out silently to the group.
Britta turned around quickly and the rest followed. "Fiora, Rohan and me keep track of this fucker. The rest keep focus on the bridge. We move toward the bridge but take the next right street." All of them nodded quickly, it got serious all of a sudden.
The stalking satyr kept staring at Rohan as it made its move. Rohan aimed his gun at the satyr and unlocked safety, he kept his finger at the trigger, waiting to see what it would do.