Carneli
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There were carols on the radios around town, from the Mall to the small place Emily had gone for last minute shopping, but she hadn't expected a monster to attack her.
Then again that did fall in line with her luck, and she'd ended up running down the street, moving as fast as possible and hoping for some way to bash the monster upside it's skull, or maybe at least slow it down. Part of her wished Canopus was around and part wanted to live long enough to try making some way to protect herself from these, but she seemed to lack the special whatever so many seemed to have to fight, and it was both fear and anger that kept her adrenaline high enough to keep running blocks after she began, grumbling at the sheer bad luck of being alone so often. She REALLY needed to make more fri3nds in town.
She didn't like her luck by herself anymore.