CHAPTER 11
Dark. I saw only dark and deep woods when I looked around. But I didn't stop. I ran Kilometer after kilometer, I ran barefoot along the rough jungle path in the dead of night.
Each step felt like it might be my last. Only the moonlight guided me, casting pale silver over the uneven ground. Fear gnawed at me — what if wild creatures lurked nearby? Tigers or bears weren’t known in this jungle, but that didn’t mean I was safe. Any moment, some beast could pounce, and no one would ever find my broken body.
Was escaping a terrible mistake? The question haunted me again and again.
My mouth was parched, my legs numb, my whole body ached and burned with exhaustion — but I had to keep running. I had to escape this hell.
I lost track of time, swallowed by darkness and silence, until
