Then I saw the swings and slides and realized it was a children's playground locked up for the night.
I followed the fence, and kept going, half-running, stumbling over twisted roots.
At the lake that curved around near the playground, I doubled back, found another path,
went over the small footbridge and then around and under it. No exit.
"What is it? What happened, lady?" "A maniac?" "You all right?" "Which way did he go?"
I had circled back to where I had started from. I slipped behind the huge outcropping of a rock and a screen of bramble and dropped flat on my stomach.
"Get a cop. There's never a cop when you need one." "What happened?" "A degenerate tried to rape her."
"Hey, some guy down there is chasing him. There he goes!"
"Come on! Get the bastard before he gets outta the park!" "Careful. He's got a knife and a gun..."
It was obvious that the shouting had flushed out the night crawlers because the cry of "there he goes!" was echoed from behind me,
and looking out from behind the rock I could see a lone runner being chased down the lamplit path into the darkness.
Seconds later, another one passed in front of the rock and disappeared into the shadows.
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