Dry Spell Excerpt

For those who asked about Dry Spell, here is the excerpt I used for the WAW challenge.

"Oh, shit." Lightning hissed as it ping-ponged across the night sky. "Hess, get your feathered ass back here, now."

Annalise leapt, tucked into a graceless roll seconds before a fissure split open the ground where she'd stood.

Glancing over her shoulder, she watched what looked like a grizzled bear climb from the cracked earth. It threw back its head and uttered a  roar that raised the hairs on the back of...