From the distance, mostly obscured by mist, it looked like a water tower, one of those brutalist concrete lumps that looked painfully out of place so far into the countryside. The nearest town was over fifty miles away which made it all the stranger to see one in the middle of nowhere and nothing.
The way the road curved around the forest made it look like the tower was still the same size even though we were moving away from it, kind of like the way the moon follows your car. It wasn't until we got to the end of the forest that we noticed that it was actually moving.
It almost seemed to gallop on concrete stands that were surprisingly graceful given their blockish appearance. The mist began to clear the further away from the forest we got and its upper half started coming into view. It was definitely not man-made.
The road shuddered with its every step as it gained ground so rapidly that our only thought was to speed up, to get to a sharp enough corner and run into the forest to hide. We hoped it was more interested in the car than the fragile people inside.
And we were right.
Right beside its leg and desperately trying not to move or breathe too loudly or do anything to draw attention to ourselves but still, we were right. It crushed the car with ease and lowered its torso, smooth concrete splitting into countless jagged shards that pierced and lifted the car in one swift movement.
We were showered with little metallic shards as it quite happily ate our only method of transportation, slowly walking back to its original position. We must have waited for a good hour before we reached for our phones and tried to call a cab.
Unsurprisingly nobody would come out to us but one helpful company told us there was a bus stop a few miles onward and that we'd be able to get a bus safely there. None of them mentioned the thing masquerading as a water tower but I heard the way their breath froze when we told them where we were.
The bus stop was a lot further than they said and the bus was more of a rectangular tank covered in fake foliage but we made it to the next town alive. We even managed to get a car for next to nothing, probably out of pity but it got us away from there.
Now whenever I see a water tower I can't help but wonder if its watching me drive past, hungry and impatient.
The way the road curved around the forest made it look like the tower was still the same size even though we were moving away from it, kind of like the way the moon follows your car. It wasn't until we got to the end of the forest that we noticed that it was actually moving.
It almost seemed to gallop on concrete stands that were surprisingly graceful given their blockish appearance. The mist began to clear the further away from the forest we got and its upper half started coming into view. It was definitely not man-made.
The road shuddered with its every step as it gained ground so rapidly that our only thought was to speed up, to get to a sharp enough corner and run into the forest to hide. We hoped it was more interested in the car than the fragile people inside.
And we were right.
Right beside its leg and desperately trying not to move or breathe too loudly or do anything to draw attention to ourselves but still, we were right. It crushed the car with ease and lowered its torso, smooth concrete splitting into countless jagged shards that pierced and lifted the car in one swift movement.
We were showered with little metallic shards as it quite happily ate our only method of transportation, slowly walking back to its original position. We must have waited for a good hour before we reached for our phones and tried to call a cab.
Unsurprisingly nobody would come out to us but one helpful company told us there was a bus stop a few miles onward and that we'd be able to get a bus safely there. None of them mentioned the thing masquerading as a water tower but I heard the way their breath froze when we told them where we were.
The bus stop was a lot further than they said and the bus was more of a rectangular tank covered in fake foliage but we made it to the next town alive. We even managed to get a car for next to nothing, probably out of pity but it got us away from there.
Now whenever I see a water tower I can't help but wonder if its watching me drive past, hungry and impatient.
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