Short Story

Dunno where this came from but it is strange.  I would have made it longer but I am tired and need to go to sleep.

Mariah sat very still. She could hardly breathe. Were they still out there?   As her heart began to slow down she mused on how quickly her life had fallen apart.  Just a few hours ago she had been a normal seventeen year old girl, and now, now she was scared--deathly scared.  She was scared for a good reason, for
they had come. Not only had they come, but, they had come for her.  Just as they had for generations untold they had come to take the most beautiful girl in the village.  However, she had not waited for them to take her, instead she had run, she ran as if a demon from hell was after her.  And, in that supposition she was not far off.
As she sat there she heard a loud crack as a heavy nailed boot stepped on a branch.  Her heart started racing again. Ach NOOO! They had found her.  She shrank back against the tree, trying to put as much distance as she could between herself and the hideous face that glared down at her.  Alas once again a beautiful lass was taken by the Ukaleis.