He started running the bath and slowly began to strip, he winced from the movements. When he was finished he stood naked in front of the mirror and tried to comb what was left of his graying hair. His eyes drifted down to his torso and he studied his old diseased body, sores and marks were scattered in random formations...

Susannah stumbled over a particularly large piece of broken stone and would have fallen flat on her face if she hadn't collided into the nearest wall. She span away from the curved wall of the tunnel and continued running, doing her best to ignore the grating sound from her shoulder and the jolting pain in her arm.
She...

Red had to stop. There was no way she could go on like this indefinitely. Her muscles ached and her lungs burned, breath coming in short gasps.

Behind her, the road. Ahead, a broad field stretching out into the distance. Crouched low beside the hedge for a moment, she scanned the horizon. Nothing was moving other than...