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10:45 AM

For thirty-five minutes had the Death Bat walked about the roof of wherever it was Venus was being held captive. The whole time Venus had been trembling with fear. She was bound and gagged and her skirt was caught on something preventing her from running. If she were to run she'd have to rip her skirt and she was thankful that she wore a bikini under her uniform otherwise she'd be most uncomfortable were she to be found.

Every footstep of the Death Bat made Venus grow more and more nervous. Hearing those footsteps upon the roof was something that left the greatest feeling of terror in Venus' heart.

It was when those footsteps ceased that the feeling terror was at its greatest. Venus did not hear the wings flapping again, it was just silence. What was going on? How was Venus to know? Being bound and gagged inside some sort of building that had little in the way of lighting meant she could not see what was going on outside, if she could it would have either have required the fictional ability that was x-ray vision or the equally fictional ability to be in two places at once.

Then a new sound came to hear ears, a sound that she could interpret quite plainly. It was the sound of the Death Bat dropping down from the roof onto the ground outside.

So followed the sound of the Death Bat walking around the windowless building. When the footsteps became faint, Venus began to calm down and lightly struggled to get her skirt free from whatever it was caught on. She continued to struggle with getting her skirt loose from whatever it was caught, as the footsteps could no longer be heard.

She was in luck or so Venus believed. The Death Bat must have wandered off completely!

And then came the sounds of footprints again. They were approaching quickly, so quickly that that sound of them frightened Venus to the point that she jumped in shock, ripping her skirt but getting her free from whatever it had been caught on. Unfortunately, the end result was her falling to the floor and causing the footprints to stop completely.

A sound that sounded less than human, indeed a third human would be the most accurate, could be heard from outside. Then came the sound of sniffing and so did Venus know that the Death Bat had not known she was here until now.