Chapter 20
My eyes looked at the scene before me in complete bewilderment. What stood before me was far from what I knew before; it felt like a different world, and I couldn't help but wonder if Emmett had driven us to the right place. Before, Willow Lake was nothing but a self-built settlement deep within the forest spread over five acres. Five houses, one more substantial building and a small one where you were treated for wounds or if you got sick, all organized neatly and built with wood. It was far away from other civilizations and the closest town was roughly ten miles out. When I last saw the village, it had all burned down, nothing but ash, soot, and small remnants of the buildings that once stood. It had blackened the green of the grass and left only a desolate wasteland th
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