Chapter 76

Zenovia

I was in dreamland, covered in sheets and wrapped in it like a cocoon, when I heard a noise from the windows.

My body felt stiff and sore as I groaned in my sleep and mentally hoped whoever it was to leave me alone.

“Shoo,” I muttered in my sleep, but the noise was persistent.

It was an odd noise, like somebody was scraping their nails on the windowpanes. My eyelids felt heavy, and I groggily opened them while trying to look around.

I didn’t know Elijah was a prankster, but he was goofy, so he might have found a way to annoy me.

When nobody answered, I pulled the pillows above my head and tried shutting my eyes again.

There was a noise again, coming from the window. The odd scraping noise had returned.

I felt so annoyed that I threw the pillows and finally opened my eyes to throw my fists at someone.

But there was nothing. My room was empty.

I looked around stupidly and muttered, “Elijah, this is a very cruel way to wake someone up from sleep.”

I waited for a minute or two, but Elijah did not reply. Frowning, I gathered the sheets and was about to pull them up over myself again when I saw the window.

It was open, and the curtains were flying through the light breeze.

‘But I had closed the windows before sleeping,’ I thought and kept staring at the window stupidly.

Letting out a sigh, I got up from the bed and went to close the window.

‘Maybe I did not close it tight enough, I thought and shrugged.

But when I reached the window and tried to close it, my gaze fell on the dense trees outside the mansion’s huge gated compound.

leaves and branches

forest trees

at it, I went back to my bed, grabbed my mobile,

on the forest but my idea was pretty stupid. The trees stopped rustling and my gaze

light was switched on, so he was probably working in the office. Not that I could just barge into his office and talk to him or share my

the sleep had been driven off my eyes, I could not let the thoughts of him and Cynthia

focus on training and keep pushing myself,

close the windows, but I again felt that sharp pull. I could not explain it but somehow my body wanted to go to that exact spot where the trees were

was dragging me towards it and though I tried

deep down, I could

looked around and saw that most of the servants had retired to bed because it was the middle

the mansion. Most of them were around the huge gated compound in the

to step out and see what lay in

in my pajamas but the coast was clear, so I slowly sneaked out of the room and was careful to not make any noise. I climbed down the stairs and

I slowly walked through the perimeter of the huge mansion

few small gates on each wall, probably to allow gardeners to trim the excess grass growing alongside the walls on the outside instead of going all the way to the front and then walking back to the spot.

back

huge and I could only imagine how much

anybody had noticed me. When I saw

prickling on my skin, but when I touched my

forest seemed perfectly ordinary to me.

slowly stepped further

crunched beneath my feet as I stepped through it to make my way into

and the canopy of leaves

the forest and ensured that ordinary humans would not get too close to us. Everywhere I looked, the scenery appeared the same to me. I was not sure how to pave my way through the forest and

thought that, the pull grew stronger as if guiding me to walk through the

had been Callahan’s only text that suddenly popped

back, and the mansion’s walls were still

see a glimpse of those walls. I would be fine. Or

I looked down, and I saw that my feet had

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