Rita was completely shocked as one of her teammates was suddenly killed in front of her in a heartbeat. The shock slowly set in as a flash of them sharing an intimate moment occupied her thoughts.
She could only freeze. He had been her friend for a while. They'd lived in an abandoned village at the southern edge of the continent, where survival of the fittest showed the true barbaric nature of humans.
Food was a necessity, to the point that sometimes, to find it, they'd have to end a life and feed on it, just to live another day.
Orphaned since birth, they'd grown up together into their mid-twenties. Until they were found by a recruitment team and sent here, because it was better to die on the battlefield with full bellies than to suffer and end up as someone's meal.
It happened slowly — they'd started sharing intimate moments and fell in love with each other.
Nevertheless, today ended all of that in this creature's jaws.
