Tales of the Slayer
From: A Good Run
The Slayer Thessily Thessilonikki
The Battle of Marathon
Greece, 490 B.C.E.
She runs.
The ground is hard and dry, littered with stones and the bodies of the fallen, Athenian and Persian alike. She runs barefoot and avoids the bodies, but cannot avoid the stones. They bite at her soles, digging into her skin, and she can barely feel it, but she knows her feet are raw and blistered, and that with each stride she leaves a trail of bloody footprints across the plain. She barely feels anything but a distant and crackling pain from her lungs and a dull hot throbbing from the wound in her side, where the poison entered her body almost four days ago. Her chiton, once white, is now almost black in places, stained with days of dirt and sweat and blood, and linen has torn at her shoulder where a vampire grabbed her while trying to take her throat.
That vampire is dead, as are a hundred others, and she is dying, too, ... read full excerpt from Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Tales of the Slayer Vol. 1 ebook
