Dionne
We’d been walking for what felt like hours, trudging forward in the same silence as my mind raced with thoughts. My legs ached, and every now and then, I stumbled over a stray root or rock. The real frustration wasn’t my body though but my mind. I knew we were going in circles, which was exactly what I had prayed for, as it gave me enough time to escape yet I was bored of this.
Glancing up at the tree root up ahead. There it was. The same spot where I’d thrown a piece of paper earlier, just to check if I was right. And of course, here we were again, walking straight into the exact same area. My gut had been screaming at me for a while now, but this was solid proof.
“We’re lost, aren’t we?” I asked, tilting my head slightly although I already knew the answer.
“No, we’re not,” Ro
