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"I can do this!" Violet encouraged herself.
With slow hand movements, she freed her hair from the branch. She smiled victoriously when her hair fell on her shoulder in a heap.
"That was easy." She purred as she tried not to panic when she took a gander around.
Sure, it was frighteningly dark and every tree trunk had seemed to develop two, big and dark red eyeballs of their own, that were staring at her. But after she calmed down and told herself that it was nothing, everything began to seem ordinary again.
The trees didn't scare her. The trunks didn't have those dark and foreboding eyeballs. There were no monsters moving around. There were no rogues leering at her helplessness.
It was just her in the silent embrace of harmless nature, among little creatures who were just chill
