[2] Shoot it!

You adjust your aim and decide to blow a hole through their head. Your rifle rocks your shoulder as it spits out a jacketed tipped bullet down at your target. It hits them directly on the head and they tumble over in an almost comical way. It almost looked fake with how far the head stretched back behind the rest of the body followed it down. You pull back on the bolt to chamber the next round and wait. The breeze eventually closes the door, which prevents you from seeing your target. Reluctantly, you break cover and make for the door. You think about announcing your entry, since you think someone in there might be your client, but decide not to.

With your barrel forward, you start to wish you brought something shorter, as the full length of the rifle starts to make your entry awkward. You step inside and squint, the figure you shot is on the floor, but you don't see any blood. Head shots usually make a mess of the target, and it's easy to identify whether or not they were hit... You hit a dummy made of straw and wooden planks.

You panic and whip around just in time to see a cloaked figure jump down try to stab you with a long, slender silver blade. You both dodge and dance for awhile, but you can't get a good enough shot to drop them, so they manage to slice you a few times in deadly dance of life, It isn't enough to put you out the fight however. You decide to discharge your rifle and throw it at them. As expected, someone that chose to attack like this ducks under like they were expecting you to do it. You pulled out your side arm and trained it to your attacker. You squeeze the trigger a few times just to miss. They rapidly close the distance between you two and throws themselves at you.

Now you're on your back as they are now trying to desperately kill you. It's here when you realize the cuts are worse than they at first seemed. You can just barely reach the grip of your pistol as the tip of the blade starts to poke through your clothes. Just as you feel the sharp edge cut into you, you bring the barrel of your pistol to their chin and pull the trigger. There's a shower of crimson and skull fragments. The fight lasted no more than a minute, but you feel that you are about to die.

The body on top of you has gone limp. You push them off and roll to your side, holding onto your wounds as you crawl towards the door. You left all of your medical supplies on the horse. Before you get too close to your horse though, you body shuts down and you fall to your face. You're awake, just...paralyzed? Your vision pulses, you flip to your back and gasp. The knife was laced with some kind of poison...Despite being in pain at first, everything begins to numb. With the numbness, eventually leads to shutdown. You struggle to keep your eyes open and to even breath - but you feel relaxed and at peace...Maybe, you'll wake up and you'll return to Delilah? With your last breath, you accept you won't be waking up.

[Ending #2: Too close for comfort...] (BAD ENDING)

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