Escape from Endeavor by Daniel A. Jones

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  The stream was peaceful again. The sand and silt the girls had stirred up had settled back to the bottom a little farther downstream, but that was only natural.

  It took a little over ten minutes before the creature arrived at the girls’ rest area. It had felt their presence and could still taste the strong emotional energy of fear that they had left behind. They had run off and it couldn’t catch them. They had somehow found out it was coming and left. The only thing it could do was wait to see if they would return for the item they had left behind. So it slowly crawled out of the stream up onto the bank and through the grass. It tried to leave no signs of its passage as it made its way to the small bush near the item. It would wait here for a while and see if anything came to retrieve it.