Chapter 59: 'Road Kill'

Izo stumbled headlong on to the blacktop, falling to his hands and knees. Just about having run out of steam and reasons. How long had he been running?

The simple thought, was enough to almost enough to send him into spasms of laughter, almost. If he'd had, the 'wind' currently to spare. Part of him, 'almost' wanting the demon to find him!

"Make this be over!" He wailed to the uncaring asphalt beneath.He couldn't really remember when or where it had all gone wrong. Utterly spent, he finally stopped resisting 'the pull', allowing himself to lay down, right on the edge of the blacktop. There he stayed, considering, uncaring of the consequences.

There wasn't a specific date, he could draw to mind when he'd taken that first 'bad' step. Though it would be so easy to just blame it all on Sato. 'yeah', too damn easy!

Laying cheek upon the oddly comforting smoothness of the asphalt, closing his eyes he wondered. Perhaps it would be fitting if some speeding motorist unexpectedly put him out of his misery! He didn't know how long he continued that way having lost all sense of time. Before finally looking up, and by the grace of starlight saw the rabbit.