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Chapter 40

Author: Deewrites
last update Last Updated: 2025-05-16 00:54:49

KAIA'S POV:

The forest shifts the deeper I go.

The trees are no longer trees, they look like watchers. Gnarled branches twist like limbs frozen in prayer or pain. Their bark is thick with moss, but beneath it, I sense something older.

Something that breathes, though I cannot hear it. The air is colder now, heavy with mist that clings to my hoodie and seeps through the cloth like cold fingers brushing against my skin.

My boots crunch against old leaves, and each sound feels like a violation. Too loud. Too alive. I slow my steps, instinctively quieter. The magic in the pendant Rhea gave me pulses faintly against my chest like a heartbeat not my own.

I whisper to myself, or maybe to the trees, or to the magic that seems to hum beneath the soil. “Don’t let me break.”

A rustle behind a thick curtain of ivy pulls me from my thoughts. My breath catches in my throat. I crouch low, heart pounding.

From the shadows steps a deer.

At least, that’s what I think it is at first. I
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