Horror Novel

Chapter 41 – Horror Novel

We ran for what seemed like hours, always on the road and never in the woods. When the sun finally dipped down into late afternoon, my entire body ached and sweat poured down my limbs from the sun beating down on us. My hands were shaking with the effort of gripping onto Simon’s mane, and my head was still spinning from the accident.

As Simon came to a slow trot, and then a stop, I took a second to look around us. The road stretched out for miles, barren and empty as it had been since we had left the shadows, and Moira behind us. The forest continued to stretch itself out on either side of the roadway, but now it seemed less ominous, and more of an invitation to come and sit under its shaded trees. Simon had taken every twist and turn he could find, leaving us not only in the middle of nowhere, but also far from the path that we were supposed be following before.

I slid from his back, slowly lowering myself to