Spear Kids

<Jake! Duck!> Tobias yelled.

For once in my life, I didn't stop to think about it. I ducked. And even as I ducked, I saw the face. I saw the arm. I saw the spear.

It was coming straight at me.

Right for my face.

The vision! It was the hallucination!

I ducked. The spear went over my head and flew on harmlessly into the bush.

Tobias flapped wildly into the air. <I shouldn't have been resting,> he berated himself. <I should have been in the air.>

I was too weirded out to worry about Tobias.

"I knew that was going to happen," I said. "That spear. The kid who threw it. I knew!"

Cassie looked strangely at me. "Jake, what are you -"

<Three people,> Tobias interrupted. <They almost look like they might be kids. They're hauling butt out of here. Which is what we better think about doing, too.>