The woman raced down the darkened street glancing back at the beast behind her. She turned down the corner and quickly swerved to the left to miss a large carriage parked on the road. She ran alongside the canal before catching her slipper on a loose stone
and tripping, flying face first onto the cold stones of the street beneath her. She quikly whirled around, triggering a searing pain in her ribs. She gasped and ripped off a gold chain and locket as a set of jaws snapped shut an inch away from her nose. "I will not let you destroy the rest of my family", she screamed. The monster lurched forward as the woman threw her locket into the rushing waters beside her, sealing her fate.