Chapter 7

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When she finally got to Liz's burrow, she noticed blood near the front door. She thought nothing of it. 'eh, must be from Al.' she thought as she knocked on her friend's door.

No answer.

She knocked again, a little louder.

Still nothing.

She banged on the door hard with her paw.

Dead silence.

'weird… I could've sworn I saw Liz and Al go home…'

She tried opening the door, but it was locked.

Starting to get a little worried, she walked around back and tried that door.

It was locked too.

She ran and looked in one of the windows. It was very dark inside. Not a single light was on.

She knew that someone's blood was on the property, and started fearing for Liz's safety as she starting looking at her options.

Either try to break their large, heavy door down, or smash a window and risk the sharp glass that would go flying everywhere. And since she wasn't a ground squirrel like her friend's family, she wouldn't be able to dig as well in the harder dirt that made up their burrow and would probably take hours of heavy digging just to get inside.

She had no time. She had to find Liz. And fast.

She chose the fastest and easiest option she could think of. She found a large rock and had at it.

She threw the rock and smashed the window open.

Sharp shards of glass were flung everywhere, but she did not care. All she cared about now was finding her friend.

She carefully crawled through the broken window and cautiously stepped over all of broken pieces of glass.

Luckily, she did not step on any.

She sighed a sigh of relief and starting looking for Liz.

"Liz? Liz?! Liz!" she called out. But no answer.

She checked everything everywhere. Upstairs, downstairs, but absolutely no sign of Liz. Or Al.

She finally realized she forgot to check the basement. She face pawed herself and shook her head.

She was starting to get really afraid of what she might find. She took a deep breath as she started down the basement stairs.

When both her feet set on the basement floor, she pulled the string to the light and it buzzed on.

What she saw next made her want to fall down.

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Yeah, I know that the chapters I have been writing are a little on the short side... but I promise they will be getting longer, hopefully, as the story goes on.