Love Hunting
"I... I didn’t—"
She dared a glance behind her, her heart hammering, expecting someone to emerge from the shadows. But in that fleeting moment, her foot caught on a rock.
She fell.
The forest floor rushed up to meet her, and the world around her dimmed as everything went black.
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Earlier that day, Shama lay sprawled across her bed, lost in the colorful pages of her favorite comic book, *Mystical World of Mythical Creatures*. She giggled to herself as her eyes danced across the familiar illustrations and stories she knew by heart.
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