Chapter Thirteen

After I told my mothers story, all of the children subsequently, went to sleep all huddled in a group at my feet or side. All of their mothers thanked me for calming them down before they too fell asleep, the only people that were awake was the guard and myself. I sat there looking deep into the darkness, the faces of the man in my window and the ones I saw in the forest filled my mind.

The look of death, which was in their eyes alarmed me, I had never experienced anything such as that in my life before. I felt as though I was back to being the little kid, the one which would sit in her bed and cry for mother telling her there were monsters in my cupboards. She would come in and gently lay beside me, she would reassure me nothing would hurt me when she was around. The same story I had told the children would be recited, where I would be able to repeat the magical story word for word.

A brave girl called Audrey, had to go on mission to save her people from the dangerous creatures which