The Missing Children

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3 years later, Owen, Ava, and Sebastian turned 8 today, on April 19th 2023, and they still haven't escaped the forest. Still trapped in the same forest going through loops here and there. Since they were trapped for so long, they now think they've been in the forest their whole lives and have been raised by deer. They can't even remember who their sibling Crystal was due to their insanity. "Do you think our escape plan will work?" Ava asked Owen, confused. "Yeah I think so, I heard it gets you out of the forest if you bang yourself into a tree hard enough." Owen calmly responded and Ava saw bravery in his eyes. "Where did you hear it from? There's no internet in the middle of nowhere and we have no devices." Ava asked, confused and a little upset. "I heard some deer say something about it when I asked, and they said it works. They saw some other people that we met in the forest using it and they disappeared." Owen stated in bravery while seeing how Sebastian was doing.

"Wait! I hear something." Ava panicked and stared down Owen and Sebastian. They all looked back and saw a deer running towards Owen. "Oh no! The deer must think I have the fish for him." Owen replied while starting to run away, while Ava and Sebastian were following him. There is a huge lake trapped in the forest with the kids and fish are living inside of it. The deer got so close to Owen that one of the antlers stabbed him violently right through the stomach while the deer was bending it's head down trying to get the fish. "OWEN!!" Ava screamed while the deer grabbed the fish and ran away with Owen stuck on the antler and with the fish. Sebastian and Ava tried chasing down the deer but it was too fast for them and too far away.

"I'm sick and tired of this!" Ava yelled, grabbed the rope from Sebastian's pocket, put it into a knot, tied it onto the tree and hung herself. Sebastian couldn't even do anything but cry. He couldn't speak as much and he knew how much she wanted to die. Sebastian really wanted to die too. So he removed his sister's body from the rope and did the exact same thing. "Death was the only way to get out, you can't just walk away from something and pretend it never happened." -Sebastion's thoughts.