Shadows Return
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Last published Sat, Jun 29, 2019
as she ran through the forest the wind was blowing making it harder to tell if she was still being persued. She heard the sudden crack of a twig to her right
she knew it was them she ran faster almost tripping over the roots of the trees that had once been her home that had now become her cage preventing her from getting away. She got snagged in a bush and at that moment she heard footsteps closing in and she knew there was only one way left to get out of this situation she knew if they caught up to her they would kill her. They couldn't let her live with all that she knew and all that has happened over the course of the night her only choice was to kill them before they killed her with that thought in mind she broke free from the bush and turned around and headed full sprint in the direction that she came.
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