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.

she not showing

in grave danger.

mysteriousness was really confusing

you.”

you talking about? Can you at

that I feared she was never going to reply.

King. Do not trust him”

said, and then all of a sudden, the brightness disappeared. The forest was black again, and I sensed that the woman was leaving… to

on my feet and tried to stop her. This was a weird encounter, but I needed

I not trust him?”

when he is done with

spoke of Callahan told me she

would you say that?”

to hurt him? Was I being used as a pawn? But if

he could use me as a leverage against Callahan. And Sid was convinced Callahan was not the man I wanted to be

my heart say

was getting

so lost in thoughts that I did not even notice that she had

you answer

and if you want to thank me for saving your life, you shall do

“Do what?”

him and don’t mention me

I don’t even know who you are or what you want from me. You have not shown your face or

but then I could not trust a

to choke me

or the sweetest gentleman I had

he would have killed me long ago if

meet again.”

could enquire further, a bright light shone on my

winced as I threw my hands in front of

my

was

was I doing in the forest? How did I come here? Had Callahan dumped me here in the middle

my brain could not give me a single satisfactory answer to my questions. There was only a lingering feeling, a light caress on my mind as if I

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