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Literature

Phases (Chapter 1)

She knew she wasn’t supposed to be here. The dark trees surrounding her threatened to swallow her whole, drowning out her cries. The bright full moon doing nothing to stamp out the persistent shadows. The haunting howls and grunts of her pursuers growing louder and louder in her ears as they trampled through the flora, thoughts only on capturing their tiny prey. Panicking, she ran. Further and further until her legs could carry her no more. Her breath caught as searing pain suddenly clawed its way up her right leg as it came into contact with something unwilling to yield to her frantic steps. She yelped as her body hit the ground with a rather unpleasant “THUD!”. Breath short and ragged, she whipped her head around, eyes landing on the thick tree root she’d tripped on, and just beyond that, the iridescent orbs that stared back at her with hunger. And just like that, she couldn’t move. Her mind screamed at her to run, but her body refused to, having spent all the energy it