THE ENCOUNTER

Kayla

I winced in pain the minute I tried to lift my legs up. The pain was excruciating that I gave up almost immediately. I had beads of sweats scattered across my face and my heart beat was on the rise.

My heart was filled with various questions that scared me and one of them was if I was going to walk again.

“Relax, Kayla. I can hear through your thoughts”, I heard a soft feminine voice and for a moment, I thought that I had just heard wrongly.

I knew that someone picked me up from the ground after the beast tried to kill me. However, I had no idea that it was a woman.

What was a woman doing here in the forest?

“Relax Kayla, I hear through your thoughts”, her voice said again, causing me to jerk up in fear.

I looked at her intently, with my heart beating out of my chest. At first, I had thought that I would be dealing with another invincible being. However, I was lucky to see that it was a woman in a human form.

“Thank goddess”, I mumbled under my breath since that went a long