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The Escape

Author: Loria Malf
last update Last Updated: 2025-05-20 22:17:47

Seraphina’s POV

We had been on the run for three months now. Yet, there were nights I still woke up gasping for air, my heart pounding in my chest as if it were trying to escape my ribcage. The nightmares came without warning—haunting images of that blood-red moon, of shadows twisting and wrapping themselves around my mother’s body. Sometimes, my screams were so loud they even startled Helena awake, rushing to my side, her face lined with worry.

But no matter how many nights passed, I couldn’t forget that night under the red moon. I couldn’t erase the memory of my mother—her figure consumed by shadows, her body sprouting unnatural, blood-red flowers that pulsed with an eerie life of their own. I still clung to the hope that she might be alive. That somehow, she had fought back against whatever darkness had consumed her. But deep down, I knew I was probably lying to myself. Was she alive? I feared the answer too much to dwell on it.

The truth was, whether or not I allowed myself to thi
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