[salty pretzils]

di's eyes widended as brutani started to lose his balence and hundreds of scrabs milled about beneth him.the paramites charging along the branch straight for the creature were getting closer and they didn't look very merciful.a shriek came from behind him as the thing toppled and fell. witout thinkind di
flew
towards
him
and
scooped him up just as it was about to hit the scrab swarms on the floor. hanging on tight, he could feel tendons tearing but still he struggled on as the paramites on the floor bouded towards them . he roared in pain as blood dribbled from his mouth and legs. finally after what seemed an age to di ,they reached the next tree. di collapsed onto a branch , sobbing in pain as the blood contiued to flow from his mouth and nose from the pure effort he put into breathing. he could sence the shocked things eyes on him and a gnawing question in his mind, why did i save him????? finally he looked up with bloodshot eyes at it and said "
i am di " every word was a painful struggle and his breath came short and sharp. "what...is..your..name?"di whispered. as he spoke a consistent scatching thought in his mind grew and di saw a paramite climbing the tree towards them. even as it came he could see it was one of the paramites who had chased them, a great,sturdy brute with a red glint in his eye and it was charging towards them. as it grew closer and closer di knew he had to do something and he dragged vhimself into the path of it when was just about to get the thing and was knocked flying out of the tree into the water. he looked up and saw the paramite had been knocked out of the tree and the scrabs covered it and devoured it. deprived of energy and weak from loss of blood di floated in the water, his blood curling through the water...
a single thought that was probbably going to torment di forever spoke within his head that seemed his,but not his,perhaps from a time before he was mutated by the vykers. it was a cold clear powerful voice and it said one thing.
"murderer "
he heard again zaks voice say "mutant. you will never be the same again.NEVER. "
di shrieked in pain and pity for the wreak he had become . his harsh unearthly cry rebounded in his head like the swirling waters around him.if he still had front legs he would have clutched his face as his mind fell apart. again he floated in his living torture when the waters moved beneth him. some thing was coming up,coming now.......