Ace's POVThe forest didn't look like anything I recognized. It was thick and dark, the kind of dark that swallowed sound instead of just blocking light. I was walking, though I couldn't remember starting to walk, couldn't remember why my feet kept moving through mud that pulled at my shoes with every step.“Hello?”My own voice sounded wrong out here, small, swallowed up by trees that stretched too high to see the tops of. I turned in a slow circle, trying to find a direction that looked more familiar than any other, and found nothing. Just trees. Just dark.Then I heard a low, guttural sound, closer than I wanted to think about. I froze.A shape moved between the trees to my left, and then another, low to the ground, quick, the kind of quick that didn't belong to anything I wanted to meet out here alone. It took a full second for my brain to catch up to what my eyes were seeing.Dogs. Except they weren't dogs. These were too big and too lean, eyes catching some light source I couldn
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