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

the guards changed over or

back the way she had come to start making her way out, but she froze in her tracks. She couldn’t see the spot she had come 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

feeling all over her body increased. Heat started licking her body, and almost instantly, it shot excruciating pain through every nerve. She started running forward, but the heat became worse.

sound carried like she was in a tunnel and made her wonder if the guards would hear 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

over her, something watching her as she lay vulnerable on the ground. And then the routs started moving, like snakes, around her. They

go in. All she heard was the hisses and the slithering. But everything was completely dark now. Pitch

her knives, and when she blindly started attacking she hit something. She hit something! Something

there.

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

thing she had slashed. The roots or snakes caught her

through 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

such raging fury, 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 tell

open, or was thas hier

to her knees. Sharp pain slashed across her body as if something had taken her knives and was using them against

sounded somewhere in

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