Ava by L.G.Savage (HeartBreak)

Chapter 56

The moment Ava stepped through the tree line, she felt the difference. The darkness was oppressive, pushing at her from all directions, almost like a living thing. Her heart started to pound. Had she made a mistake? But images of Claire’s eyes as she had tried to kill her entered her mind and forced her to begin walking forward.

The trees were thicker than any she had ever seen, and their exposed roots looked like giant snakes entangled on the ground. Their long, thin branches looked like arms and fingers, making them look like petrified living creatures. She had never seen trees like this..

She carefully stepped over the roots, judging the direction she needed to go. She would walk just far enough to get past the guards and then get out

of this forest

Was it getting darker? How was that possible! It was already the dead of night it couldn’t get darker than it was. She looked up and noticed she couldn’t even see the sky anymore when she was positive that there was a half moon when she had stepped into the forest.

A cold breeze hit her from nowhere. Rubbing her arms, she looked ahead again. Why was it so cold, like it was the middle of winter? She wouldn’t make it very far without a coat or warm top

Then something came over her, something in the frigid air that felt sinister. She felt it seeping into her skin like an unwanted caress. It felt like someone was pouring molasses all over her body. A shiver flashed down her spine. That wasn’t normal. None of it was. From the first day she came through the forest, she knew something wasn’t right in it, that something evil resided there. But she had prepared herself to physically fight other supernatural creatures, not this, whatever this was.

The longer she Hood there, the more it felt like it was seeping into her soul. It was a short walk past the guards, but she’d hardly taken ten steps into the forest Would this feeling get worse if she went even deeper?

point didn’t

they

best chance was to wait until the guards changed over or took a break. They had to do that at

in through even though she’d walked in a straight line. She should have been able to see the gaps in the trees where she had entered and the light from the half–moon coming through them. Even the main road should have been visible. She stepped forward, and her heart started to pound louder. The distance in front of her looked much longer than the few steps she had taken. The darkness

created this to protect their precious academy, or was this an experiment gone wrong? The darkness seemed to press into her more, and the sticky feeling all over her body increased. Heat started licking

her. Or were her cries for help somehow contained within the darkness? Would she be forever lost in this place? She slowly moved and felt blood dripping down her side. But with the burning and pain that she felt all over her whole body, the pain from

the ground. And then the routs started moving, like snakes,

in. All she heard was the hisses and the slithering. But

her teeth against the pain, she reached into the side pocket of the backpack and pulled out her knives, and when she blindly started attacking she hit something. She hit something! Something had come close enough to touch hert When she dashed

there.

her. Her limbs started to shake so much that she almost lost lier grip

again, away from the thing she had slashed. The roots or snakes caught her constantly, and they

her. Screaming as she doubled over, the kurves dropped from her trembling lunds as she applied pressure to her temples. Her insides felt like they were shrinking as the stabbing pain continued. This was worse than after Claire had attacked her in the village. Her eyes were closed, but somehow, she could

watching her from every tree trunk. The branches reaching out to her like fingers. The snakes thicker than her thighs, slithering towards her. And creatures so big she couldn’t

Were her eyes open, or was thas hier imagination! She couldn’t tell

to her knees. Sharp pain slashed across her body as if something had taken her knives and was using them against her, gelling every part of her body slice

long growd sounded

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