CHAPTER 18—What Hunts the Marked
Carolyn
I really wanted to leave and Rowenna was no longer stopping me from going, but I also needed my questions answered, I needed to understand her riddles.
Rowenna had finished speaking and was waiting for me to make my decision, was I leaving or was I staying. I sat on the edge of a small stool and stared at the witch as I thought to myself.
Do I run back into a forest that now felt alive in a way that scared me to death or do I remain inside the fortress of a woman who had threatened my life two damn times and yet somehow bled to save it?
The fire crackled softly behind me. I couldn't even tell if the room was quiet between my loud thoughts and the sound of literally everything around me, from the breeze outside to the small forest rats. I could
