chapter 16

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my eyes flick open from a dreamless sleep. darkness floats around me, I can feel my sheets pulled around me, the familiar smell of roasted walnuts still lurks in the air.

but I feel like there is something else.

something I can't see or hear.

I get out if bed and stumble over to the window.

outside the night air is empty, the moon casting beams of light over the meadow.

then something moves, like a shift in the darkness.

a stroke of black, forms in the sky, then another, then five all at once.

it looked as though the sky was being painted an even darker shade of black.

as the moon shines down on the strokes, that appear to be strange clouds, like thick mist floating in the air. Then mist evoles into something much different.

a person, hidden behind

a shimmering silver mask, drapped in a dark cloak.

suddenly an ear piercing crack is ejected into the air and I feel an increasing heat burning my face

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