Chapter Sixteen
As Rachel arrived back to the ramparts she had left just days before, she felt a total shift in the air. It had grown much colder and the wind had picked up quite a bit. She could feel a nip in the air as if it were about to snow, but she knew it was rare for it to snow in late October. She wondered if this chill she felt was the temperature, or the fact that she knew something bad was about to happen.
She stood there, remembering her last conversation with Benji, wishing that she’d never left him. That she’d never even left the castle. She felt a sense of calm come over her as she stood there, a sense that this was her home, and that this is where she belonged. She then got upset with herself for leaving and ran inside to find Benji, and to make it right again.
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