He could hear the muffled shouts and crying from his position under the attacking monster, and he was trying to fight back, but the beast was too heavy and was crushing him to the ground!  A warm sticky sensation had covered his face and neck, and Jimmy knew without a doubt that it was blood!  He could smell it, and it stank the way the bus had after the stranger bit into Miss Winslow’s neck.  Marko had been half under the beast when it landed on them as well, but he had managed to kick himself free and now Jimmy found himself alone with the creature.  The shouting was continuing from somewhere above him, and he could almost imagine what the scene must look like from their angle - the boys scattering in fear at the sight of the monster as it devoured one of their own.

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