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Chapter 37: Les Bois
Chapter 37: Les Bois
Papa Bois or Father Woods guarded a vast dense forest simply dubbed Les Bois or The Woods. The forest was teeming with life. Life bloomed, blossomed, chirped, sang, hopped, pranced, crawled, walked, ran, swam and soared in every nook and cranny of Les Bois. Cory had never seen woodlands so heavily populated by animals. The woodland creatures in Les Bois were also the bravest Cory had ever encountered. They feared no one and approached the group inquisitively, seemingly demanding to know what business they had in these woods.
The group was intent on heading to Maman Dlo’s River first and requesting that she summon Papa Bois since he was as elusive and enigmatic as one would expect a creature from legend to be.
The woods were only a half day’s ride away from Zurie so Hayden had insisted they set out
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