Laura turned to look at the woman but all she could see was a figure in the dark she couldn’t see the woman’s face, “Quiet now child,” the woman said. “They are coming.”

Laura sat up and faced the woman and suddenly the bones were there, the one in the front raised his sword and started to bring it down on the woman, “NO!” Laura screamed and held out her hands, The Bones were pushed back. The head soldiers arm still holding the sword was raised up into the air and his sword cut a hole in the side of the world and a bright light started to fill the space, Laura thought quickly, she looked for the woman but couldn’t find her and the hole was rapidly closing, she got to her feet and ran.

Laura ran through the hole and instantly started to fall, she hit ground, hard ground and the light was so bright she couldn’t see. She was gasping for breath and squinting up at the sky. She saw three Bones soldiers also come through the hole, but they went in another direction, they didn’t see where she had fallen. She couldn’t take the light anymore so she closed her eyes and curled into a ball and laid still.

The Bones followed Laura but didn’t see where she had fallen. The head soldier led the other two soldiers through the woods until they came to a solitary house. They called out with a roar and a woman came outside. The head soldier approached her and lifted her up off the ground by her throat. “Where is the girl?” He growled. Just then a man came from behind and the three soldiers pushed back causing everything in the house along with the man to fly backwards.

The soldiers fell to the ground. This attack had taken all of their strength. Shaken they mounted their horses and went back to their world. They weren’t used to weakness. They were the strongest beings in their world.

The leaders began to summon more soldiers. Laura, they decided could not stay gone, they were going to bring Laura back and kill her themselves. They had, had enough of this human who was surviving all their best soldiers efforts and they were losing more soldiers the longer this girl was here, she needed to be killed. Laura was weakening them and they needed her life to end so they could become stronger.