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226 - Where Was She In All This
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2025-06-14 10:00:53ARAH
Her arm lifted instinctively, her wind tattoo already tingling, ready to release at any second.
“Who are you?” she demanded.
The man turned slowly, then drove his trekking pole into the rocky ground with a sudden force. The impact rattled the earth beneath her feet. The tremor felt like a mini-earthquake that only touched the cliff they stood on.
Arah’s heart pounded as a deep rumble rose from below. But the world around her remained unchanged. Tourists nearby seemed completely oblivious.
Then, thick black tendrils—twisted and gnarled like old tree branches—erupted from the stone around the cliff. They snaked upward, growing fast, forming walls that arched and crisscrossed above them. They caged her in with the stranger and blotted out the sun. Only narrow slivers of light managed to slip through the gaps.
Arah released the wind tattoo, and her owls burst forth as well, circling her in a protective spiral.
Meanwh
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