𝗧𝗮𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗻 𝗙𝗙 ☾︎𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐞𝐲𝐞𝐬☽︎

𝐋𝐚𝐛𝐲𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐡

𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐨𝐧'𝐬 𝐩𝐨𝐯:

"No stop it!"

"Why?"

"Ugh just no! D-don't do it!"

"You want to die starving?"

I wordlessly stared at him while he knelt on the ground, cow dung in his hands.

He wanted to make a patch for growing vegetables just beside the cottage so that we could sell those and make some money.

"But that is kind of nasty. You're going to stink."

"You don't need to rub it in my face that you are a rich city boy."

"You know that's not what I meant. And rich pfft. We could just buy some fertilizer from the market."

"You're proving my point further and we really shouldn't be spending money uselessly when we have other ways. Learn saving up."

"You're so mean."

I pouted and walked back inside the house.

"This place is always so cloudy and gloomy. I miss seeing the Sun's face."

I walked into the kitchen which is in the back portion of the cottage, facing the pine forest.

In the past few days of us living here, I have learnt quite a few things about the Labyrinth woods, as the locals call it.

It is called so because there have been incidents in which people from the village had gone into the forest in search of wood or just teenagers in hunt of an adventure.

Everytime, one of the people going in suddenly stands still in the middle of their tracks, causing the other people walking to stop as well.

And then the person freaks out and start running in random directions.

There was something more to the urban legend which hinted that maybe it is not a completely random direction.

Maybe they do start off in a random direction but then after a while reach the same spot. Somewhere in the depths of the forest.

This was what I thought as soon as I heard of this lore from mother. She also said that when the person runs off, his or her companions immediately trailed after them to get a hold of their friend and can him or her down.

Soon the vegetation gets thicker the more they run and the person disappears out of sight.

No matter how many people there are in the chase, no matter how close or far they are, as soon as the figure gets blocked from the lines of vision of the people, it's gone.

As if they vanished into thin air or the Earth opened up and gobbled them whole.

And once that happens, there's no way to bring them back as if the lost person is the way out of the maze and nobody can ever find it.

As for the person who disappeared, the woods are the labyrinth. They run in every possible direction to escape it.

To find the door that'll help them get out of the nightmare that's controlling their minds but woefully it's a pseudo gateway. There's a real one somewhere around that nobody can see and is a secret.

As soon as he or she walks into the blind spot from the others, the door opens up and swallows them in,

getting them out of it?

Or pulling them into an even more nightmarish labyrinth?

The legend seemed fake. Or not?