/-Alora-/
The trees surrounded us and the darkness of the forest pressed down on us. Randall stepped a bit in front of me first, stiff and coiled like a spring, preparing to snap into action.
My wrists were painful from the ropes I was tied with before now, a type of remembrance of the confinement, but the feeling faded in the background.
What occurred previously did not matter to any of them while the present was poised on the verge of an abyss.
“You race through the woods always, like you are being chased by death” I asked in a strong tone that could be heard in the deafening quiet that followed.
Randall was silent for a few seconds. He stepped down a bit awkwardly, and I managed to get up exactly behind him and then had a glimpse of his shadowed face as he turned slightly to look a
