Chapter Nineteen: Meeting Again

CHAPTER NINETEEN (WAXING CRESCENT)

Chapter Nineteen: Meeting Again

She immediately got on her feet, tucked her equipment with her, and looked around once more. There was literally no one around her, she was alone.

Mallory’s heart thumped wildly. The lapping of the water and the gentle whispers of the wind sound so distant. She looked at the horizon; there was still a lot of time before the sun dipped on the horizon.

Maybe they just went somewhere to rest. Mallory tried to think positively. She calmed her anxious heart and walked towards the bank where her companions were. She saw their traces trailing towards the forest.

Mallory looked and stared.

There were no obvious movements inside the dense trees and bushes. She can’t hear their voices, and can’t see any trace of them.

She gulped and said with finality. “They left me.”

That was a fact she dreaded to learn.

She remembered the way their captain looked at her and remembered how the others treated her—like an air.

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