My heart felt so heavy that I couldn’t even tell where to start or how to carry the weight. Everything around me felt like it was collapsing, like the walls of the storeroom were pressing me down. Banished. Into the woods. Alone. No family, no shelter.
How can I survive out there? The woods are not just trees and grass. It’s wild. It’s the unknown. Summer was almost here, which means the nights will still bite cold, and the heat of the day will dry every tear on my face. I kept asking myself: how do I cope? How do I sleep on the bare ground with no roof? How do I wake up with no one beside me?
“Don’t worry, we will be fine.”
It was Limene’s voice in my head, trying to soothe me, but I knew even she wasn’t fully sure. Her tone was calm, but I could sense her worry underneath. She was str
