escape – Jordyn Saelor

Seize a sky

In the mountain all rains fall the same, to the water every stream builds into rivers, so they showed me if I slipped into one I could slip into them all

Place where the demons go

I tried to ignore this big question and instead scowled at the lightning creature’s head and wide hips and demanded my mechanical arm back

wreck yours instead

I activated the rune ring with a tap of my heel but it did nothing. So I had to smear the whole thing over and start

air fed

I tore at my sleeve with my teeth and got some gray thread to unravel and ripped it off the garment, then I got the whole string wet and stuck it on the wall

fled

I waited a good two breaths in the corridor for Mfrlfip to emerge after me just to see if it would try to stop me, but it didn’t appear so I

What God Said

Percy was God. Whoever Percy was. The salamanders and trees were his forces who braved the Dust Seas to either kill

embrace

They wrapped me in branches, bark as rough as stale bread, and carried me kicking and screaming, still invisible

stew

The first salamander I accidentally stepped on squelched and blood dribbled out and I hurried on. The second I stepped on

previous part: https://jordynsaelor.com/2025/10/03/hunger-of-the-things/ all parts: https://jordynsaelor.com/cant-catch-me-now/ *** “It burns!” the upper blanket squealed. “Run!” the middle blanket cried. “Clargor fristhimnba–” the lower blanket hissed, then they all vanished from my back so I could see everything. The trees moved. Roots thrust up from the ground to stab back down and pull their trunks through theContinue reading “squeal of the things”

Hunger of the things

I tried to avoid getting near the trees, but the further we walked, the closer they got and I wasn’t about to go back to the demon door