Saoirse woke and rolled out of her bed to the floor. She reached underneath and found the long knife her father had given her when she was sixteen, and crouched in place, trying to clear the fog of sleep and figure out what was going on. The security alarm was screaming, making it hard to think, and the roar of…something…was so loud, it vibrated the floor beneath her feet.
She could hear the grunts and cries of fighting happening in the hall, so she cracked open her door to see. There was something fighting her father and brother. She could hear her sister and mother downstairs.
Sair drew the knife from the sheath and launched herself at the back of the creature attacking her family. It cried out and turned. A fist slammed into her and drove her into the wall, cracking the sheetrock beneath her.
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