Chapter 22

Freya’s Pov

As I dug deeper into the woods, my better mind screamed at me to halt and retreat my steps, to go back. But my curious mind that was a grazing ground for animals ate at me to find out, to discover to satiate my curiosity. A need brewed within me to discover whom it was.

Even as my curiosity drove on a spinning wheel my fear was fixated like a spindle. It pierced me like thorn.

I shouldn’t delve this far, this could be dangerous. Scratch that, this was dangerous.

But even as my fears surfaced and floated like a feather on an ocean my legs carried me like they had a mind of their own. With every adding steps my fears increased but so were my steps.

From my peripheral vision I saw a shadowy figure run past the woods. Reflexively I turned with no hesitation. I don’t know what pushed me or what aided me, worse what convinced me to chase the shadow in the woods but I did.

I ran after the directions I suspected he headed. Jumping and ducking tree branches. It was evident that th