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NANCY FRAPPE WAS TIRED OF RUNNING. Although she couldn't see the blisters on her feet through her shoes, she felt pus wetting her toes. Pabi and Gogi looked better than her, but there wasn't enough energy left for the three of them to continue finding their way through the woods. Moonlight peaked in from the the canopy. Nancy stopped running. Seeing her, the two dogs did the same. 

She collapsed onto the muddy ground. Huddling her dogs closer to her, she carefully laid on her back, staring at the streak of light coming from between the canopy. Pabi moved out from her grasp and nuzzled into her face. He reached her nose, which made her sit upright and give out a loud sneeze. Gogi jumped.

Nancy laughed at herself. She took off her shoes, revealing the damage on her feet. They were awfully red and swollen, and there was not just pus, but a few bleeding blisters too. What she needed to do right now was to wash it off, but there was no water body in sight.

She heaved a disheartening sigh, going back to the job of staring at the moonlight, laying down. The air cooled down her burning wounds. Pabi and Gogi pawed back to her side. The branches above felt like a dark green shield.

When Nancy was about to shut her eyes, she saw the line of light shift a little and come back to the same place. As if it just blinked. It lasted for a fraction of second, but she was as sure as the sky it wasn't a hallucination. Nancy squinted, trying to look beyond the leaves. Nothing much was visible. She sat up and squinted once again. 

Pabi and Gogi suddenly stirred uncomfortably from their positions. One of them whined and buried himself into Nancy's ribs, causing her to lose balance. "It's alright, Gogi," she comforted.

But just a few seconds later, it turned out that it wasn't. The earth beneath them began to judder, and Nancy barely manged to stand without stumbling onto the ground. 

Just as she was taking off to run, the streak of light cut through leaves and the ground in front of them. Soil and dirt erupted onto her face. The light continued to cut deeper, uprooting few of the trees around. Pabi's bark alarm went off, while Gogi stood trembling between Nancy's legs.

The intensity of the light seemed to double, and then all of a sudden it vanished entirely. As an eerie feeling spread across, the forest grew almost pitch dark. The earth began to calm down, silencing Pabi too.

And in a few moments, everything turned deadly still. 

Nancy's heart filled with an unsettling aura, paralyzing her body. Suddenly, there was a shadow in front of her. It's mine, she thought, looking at it originating from her feet. It kept growing longer until it was not in front of her any more. 

Because Nancy clearly saw the magnificent source of light now visible right in front of her.

"Luxora," her voice escaped, gasping a little.

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A sigh comes out of my mouth. The writer just had to end it at a cliffhanger. She's been ending them like these since the last three chapters. This time, it's worse. Luxora is the light fairy, and unlike her counterpart Tenebrie, she's a ruthless, calculative killer. Not to mention the best fighter out of the trio is the two year-old dog, Pabi.

I don't shut down the laptop. I need to calm my heart from the cliffhanger, so instead, I open my G-Mail. The chats pop up on the bottom left, showing new messages from Arohi.