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Owl Woman Descriptive Writing

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There was little time to wonder before a swift kick hammered into her temple. Blinding pain tore through her body. Defensively, she curled up, wrapping her arms around her head. Tan-tak-kle-ah snatched Rory’s arm and drug the screaming child into the cavern. Accustomed to the pitch dark, she worked her way around the stalagmites toward the chasm. As she neared, orange glow at the bottom erupted into a steaming geyser. No! Rory thought as sizzling droplets stung his face and bare arms. It’s going to throw me in there! His survival instincts kicked in. Pulling his feet up, he became a dead weight. When the Owl Woman’s grip slackened, Rory wiggled his hand and slipped from her grasp, scurrying like a small frightened animal behind the nearest …show more content…

Temporarily sightless, the Owl Woman, with one hand shielding her eyes, struggled to drag Rory around the final stalagmite. A series of blurry images rushed through Fianna’s mind like the rapidly turning pages of an old flip book, ending with the slow-motion vision of Rory disappearing in the orange mist of the abyss. She dove for the woman’s legs, executing a tackle that would have awed the triplets. “Go!” shouted Mac to his terrified baby brother. “Wait at the opening. We’ll be right there.” Steamy air soaked Fianna’s clothes as she and Tan-tak-kle-ah tussled their way closer to the brink. A mere foot from the collapsing lip, Fianna sunk her knee into the Owl Woman’s groin, freeing herself and crawling away. With her nose and mouth filled with dust, she struggled to her feet, coughing and wheezing. Disoriented by the light, but astonishingly agile, the Owl Woman also stood, her back to Fianna. She lifted her feathered arms as if she were going to take flight and emitted a shrill wail that reverberated throughout the

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