Sin-Ci

Chapter Two

"Mom?" Cinci asked, confused, "why is the fence cut?"

"Follow me," his mother said as she lifted up the bottom of the fence and crawled out. Cinci, despite his fear of the outside world, followed. He was afraid of what came next, of what his mother was thinking. But Cinci trusted his mother.

They walked for at least an hour, maybe more. Night was slowly coming as they made their way through the forest. Cinci was terrified. So terrified that he stayed as close as he could to his mother and looked everywhere at every moment.

"Cinci," his mother said calmly, stopping. "Do you know why I told you these terrible things about these woods?"

Cinci looked up at her as he inched closer to her side, "no, mum." Cinci stated, "not at all."

His mother gave him a quick smile and said, "I didn't want you to leave me. But now, I regret ever telling you these things. The world isn't that bad, but I just wanted you to know that there ARE creatures who can kill you." His mother looked down at him, "just the thought of seeing you and your sisters dead faces, or never being able to see you at all."

She looked away from him and for a couple moments, she kept silent. Cinci awaited a reply, for he still did not understand why he was out here. 

After a few seconds, she looked back at him and gave a fake smile.

"Forgive me," she whispered as she bolted away from Cinci in a split second, into the darkness of the forest.

Cinci froze for a couple seconds, wide eyed, trying to understand what just happened. After about 2 seconds, Cinci ran as fast as he could after her. He tried to sniff her out but the new smells hit his nose quickly, and he began to lose track of her. Cinci ran left and right, hoping to somehow find her, somehow catch her smell again.

But he couldn't, no matter how hard he ran or how hard he sniffed. 

This was the first time Cinci truly felt abandoned.