sharp teeth

The room is dark. Something Large silently adjusts its footing on the ceiling as Stu calls out for the kid.

Herb intercepts the claw right before it hits Stuart. It pierces his chest, the tip of it mere inches from Stu's face. The creature tosses Herb aside as if he weighed nothing, his body crashing into tables and chairs. The thing is almost spider-like, if spiders were giant and had human skin pulled over them.

Stu manages to distract it before it can attack Herb again, leading it out of the room and blinding it with the fire extinguisher.

Herb can only lay there as he's losing blood. He manages to drag himself into the classroom's supply closet, fully assuming he's been left for dead. Well, not like there was much going for him to begin with.

When Stu returns from baiting the monster a safe enough distance away, he comes back to a trail of blood leading into a closet. He opens the door, fearing the worst.

Herb lays there, wheezing and rattling, but he's alive. Stu doesn't know what to do, but they can't stay here. Herb's barely conscious, but he manages to get him awake just long enough to get him back on his feet and walk him up to the breakroom.

He has no idea how he's supposed to handle a wound like that, let alone on someone as big as Herb, but he's got to try something. He can't die. He can't leave him alone in this nightmare. Stuart patches him up the best he can.

Herb's breathing, previously a constant background noise, has become far too quiet.