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Eighty-Three

Author: Luxie
last update Petsa ng paglalathala: 2025-07-28 23:40:24

Vanessa

I ran barefoot through a forest, with my lungs tearing, and my heart rattling so loud it might as well have been outside my chest.

The sky above was silver black, and cold. The night was alive and cruel. The trees were off — wrong somehow — taller, hungrier.

I knew this place, but not like this. Red eyes flashed between the trunks. My foot slammed a root. I staggered but didn’t stop.

No direction felt safe. I spun left, then right, then checked behind me. Every time I looked, I expec
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