Frozen.

FOUR

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He walked in front of me, sauntering through the woods like he was on some kind of runway. I lingered back slightly, accompanied by Keira. She walked protectively beside me with my hand lightly touching her beautiful head. She scanned the surrounding woods with eyes that saw through the dark like an owls.

I blinked once and my eyes seemed to focus. The forest seemed to come to life around me or maybe I was the one who came to life.

I looked into the forest. I could see every single one of the leaves and blades of grass sitting on the ends of the tree's' branches and poking up from the ground. I could see the occasional bird sitting, fast asleep, on a thick branch, away from the reach of predators. Night flowers sat at the base of one of the trees. Their petals were covered in white with thick purple covering the ends and dotting the middle's. As Tarn walked up ahead of me, I could see the indentations his feet left in the grass and dead leaves covering the forest floor.

I laughed in amazement. Tarn stopped and turned to me with a confused smile. "I can see everything, Tarn." I said in wonder. "Everything." He looked at me, almost relieved.

"Of course you can, Ashana. You're one of us." He said as he stepped closer to me. By closer I meen close enought that I could feel his weirdly warm and cold breath on my face. My heart rate was beating up, going like the sound a trains wheels make when its speeding across the tracks.

He looked right into my eyes with his light brown ones and I noticed when a flash of something like longing flashed across their glossy surface. I gasped in shock. His gaze shot down to my lips before they quickly flung themselves back to my eyes. He clenched his jaw and took a step back. My heart clenched. I didn't want to stop that little moment of intimacy between us. Not even if I noticed that Keira's presence was gone.

"Tarn?" I asked worried. He looked at me almost sternly. "Where's Keira?" I scanned the area around us, but I couldn't see her. Panick rose in my frozen chest. Tarn simply looked taken aback by my question.

"Don't worry you're hi- I meen Ashana. She will return momentarily." He reassured me. That strange accent returning. Wait. Did he just almost say your highness?

We set off again. I kept scanning the woods, hoping that Keira would return. Although I'd only had her for about an hour, it was like we'd been with each other forever. The way my hand felt when I touched her amazingly soft, white fur, was like I'd been doing it my whole life. Her whole presence seemed to scream out that she was my wolf. That she was almost made for me.

Fear was pulsing through my body when I noticed fallen twigs and leaves snapping and crunching to my right. My new, cat like vision only showed small animals running off in all directions. Panic was starting to build inside me. I froze mid step and watched the area where the noise was coming from. The bush kept moving, twigs kept snapping, I stayed frozen in my position.

"Don't say a word." Tarn whispered into my ear from behind me. I gasped in fear, not expecting him to show up behind me. Something strange pulsed through my body at his closeness. Jeez, this new kid was doing weird things to my natural dislike for people. But I did what he said. I didn't say a word or move a muscle for that matter.

Finally, the concealing leaves of the bush spread apart, revealing the source of the noise. My heart stopped in my chest. My breath caught in my throat. I could not believe what I was seeing. It was like I was literally in some freaky fairytale where monsters lurk in the forest without you ever actually knowing that they're there.

My eyes scanned the thing in front of me. It was big. But only just slightly taller than me. To be honest, it just looked like a massive rock man with arms and legs and a head. Although it's head wasn't the prettiest thing in the world. The monster had sharp teeth pointing out of its angry mouth. It's eyes glowed a horrible red colour and it's nose was like nothing I'd ever seen before. It's arms and legs were long and hairy and left loud booming noises and large footprints behind it in the grass.

My body was shaking with fear. A cold fear was pulsing up and down my spine like it would after you wake up from a horribly bad, bad dream. When I took my eyes off the thing, I turned my head to the right to see tarn standing a few meters away from me, watching the monster intently. When I looked at him though, he turned to me and raised his index finger to his lips before he looked back to the beast with concentration. I kept my mouth shut and just watched as the thing came walking out of the bushes. But it didn't stop. It only stopped when I accidently shifted my leg and twig snapped beneath my foot. I froze again, overwhelmed with panic. What would this thing do if it saw me? Better yet why hasn't it seen me already?

It started walking again. In my direction. I stood as still as humanly possible with my lips zipped shut and my eyes tied open. Deep down, I felt that if I made a single sound or even blinked, I would be in so much trouble that I wouldn't even be able to blink again. Ever. So I stared at the creature as it stepped up right in front of me and sniffed the air. I held my breath tight in my throat, panicking. The creature took a sniff of the air before it turned around and bounded back into the bushes again and out of sight.

Finally I breathed out and practically collapsed to my knees. Relief was flooding through my veins as I sat there trying to get my mind around what I had seen, trying to figure out why it didn't see me. At all.

"How did you know to stand still and hold your breath?" Tarn demanded. I turned to him, shock all over my freezing face.

"What?" I barely whispered. The adrenalin from the encounter was still racing through my veins like a V8 car around a race track on race day.

"When that Rockliff came out. How'd you know to stand still and not breath?" He asked again. Watching me intently.

"I didn't." I whispered, shakily. "It was an instinct." I said, looking into his extremely light brown eyes.

"My god, you are her. It's you." He said, incredulous. That strange accent becoming thicker and thicker by the minute. My eyebrows furrowed in confusion. What did he mean? I'm her?

"What was that?" I asked him.

"A Rockliff. It's blind and has a shocking sense of smell so when you stand still and hold your breath it can't hear you, so you might as well not be standing right in front of it." He told me. So that's what he meant. How would I know that?

"Tarn?" I asked him, realizing now that there was no way on earth that we were anywhere near my house or for that instance, in the normal world. "Where are we?" He looked at me as if he expected that I would have figured it out eventually.

"The enchanted forest. In Faery world." He said. My heart fell out of my chest and my breathing just refused to continue. I gasped in shock. Faery world?

But where's Keira?

A/N: Wah Hey there you bootiful bunch of people.

Hope you enjoyed this chapter. Wasn't particularly sure of what to write.

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