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“run”
“run”
“run, little girl, before I drag you back to the hell you came from.”
The voice was everywhere. No matter how many turns she took, it still echoed in her head.
Made her limbs feel like they were made of lead, made the air around her feel sulphurous. She stumbled over a stray log of wood and tripped. She felt her phone vibrate in the pocket of her jeans. The howls increased, the voices became louder, the shadows in the forest became darker.
“nish? Nish did you escape too? Where are you?” she whispered frantically, not caring that she could not afford to stay still like this. Not when she could hear it as plain as day.
run.
“tell me, Shreya,” said nish in a calm voice, calm enough to send a chill down shreya’s spine.
“if I play nice, will they let me go?
If I become a monster too, will they let me go?”