The Outcast’s Fate
They moved in silence, seasoned by years in the woods.
Three of them Callen, Harst, and old Greer—had taken the high trail by the western ridge.
“Tracks,” Harst muttered, crouching low.
But Callen didn’t answer.
He had spotted something ahead.
A figure.
Naked.
Bruised.
Collapsed at the base of a tree, skin pale as bone, cuts tracing her arms and legs like forgotten scars, her hair tangled and soaked with sweat.
Samantha.
The men approached cautiously, uncertain if she was a spirit, a lost child, or something else entirely.
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