Chapter 77
Zenovia
My eyes roamed around nervously and I waited for a reply, but there was silence.
Had I imagined all of it? Definitely not.
So I tried again.
“I… I just wanted to thank you for the help. Thank you for saving me,” I said and then a soft voice replied to me.
“Do not mention me to anybody”
It seemed to reach my ears from behind. I turned around so fast that I felt I had snapped my neck. But the direction from which the voice had come was devoid of any living being.
All I could see were leaves and branches. Why was this person playing hide and seek with me?
“B-but why are you hiding from me? I…I am not going to harm you,” I offered. I knew I did not look like a scary predator, but I could not understand what this person wanted from me.
The voice let out a deep, rumbling laughter. “You cannot harm me, but the people around you can and will”
The voice was speaking mysteriously, and I felt all the more intrigued.
“What people around me? Who will harm you?”
The voice seemed to be of a female, but I could not quite ascertain the age of the woman based on just the voice alone.
When I did not receive an answer, I asked again.
However, instead of answering me, I received a question.
“What is your name?” The woman asked me instead, though she was still hiding from me.
At least she was talking. Maybe she was just being cautious. But since she helped me, I decided to be honest.
“My name is Zenovia. What is yours? And why are you here in the forest? What were those vines?” I asked, but the woman dodged my questions yet again.
The voice seemed to echo through the forest, not letting me trace it back to the location of the speaker who was lurking in the woods. At one point it seemed to come from the right, at others from the left, as if the speaker was circling me.
Though how she was doing, it was a mystery to me.
not showing me her face?
are in grave danger. Do
blinked. This mysteriousness was
you.”
are you talking about? Can you at least give
pause that I feared she was
King. Do
sudden, the brightness disappeared. The forest was black again, and I sensed that the woman was leaving… to wherever she wanted to
tried to stop her.
I
you away when he is done with you. You are just a
held a bitter tone, but the way she spoke of Callahan
you say that?”
to hurt him? Was I being used as a pawn? But if she
was convinced
my heart
getting very
so lost in thoughts that I did not
answer
to thank me for saving your life, you
“Do what?”
don’t mention me to
don’t even know who you are or what you want from me. You have not shown your face or told
could not trust a stranger saying that Callahan was going to
in the past, I had thought of him wanting to choke me to death, but he
-
me or the sweetest
killed me long ago if he wanted
will meet again.”
on my face
front of my face to block
my eyes, and
was
I come here? Had Callahan dumped me
questions. There was only a lingering feeling, a
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