Borrow

I became alert, my eyes scanning my surroundings .

There was no sign of a living being so I calmed down.

" Maybe I'm Just imagining things." I murmured to myself. With all the tension and paranoia, it was reasonable I was getting alarmed over nothing.

Taking a deep breath, I took a step forward as I approached the gate.

My heart was racing in my chest and if it wasn't for the fact that I desperately needed to find that book, I would have turned around and left.

But I couldn't.

Standing a meter away from the gate, I extended my hands to push it when my peripheral vision spotted what looked like arrows flying my way as the sound of metal rattling echoed throughout the silent night

Instinctively I dodged as my head snapped back, the arrows had passed right next to me.

"Fuck!" I cursed as another bout of arrows flew by my side. I stepped back, calculating the distance and speed of the arrows, then dodged once again, my movements precise.

Squatting down, my eyes stared at the small hole th