“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
-Martin Luther King Jr
Chirps rippled through the cool barely-lit pines. From those first few notes burst so many more, as if the birds had collectively been waiting for the first to call into the dawn.
Their sound, the only thing Katerina could grasp onto and it brought her slowly out of the unconscious state she had been forced into. Squinting her eyes together, she tried to blink them open, thinking it would be an easy task.
She was wrong, very wrong.
It felt like they were glued shut and that there was no scope of escaping.
As when she could make most of her surroundings, her heartbeat accelerated, her blood heating the top layer of her skin. Furrowing her eyebrows,
