Chapter 77

Zenovia

My eyes roamed around nervously and I waited for a reply, but there was silence.

Had I imagined all of it? Definitely not.

So I tried again.

“I… I just wanted to thank you for the help. Thank you for saving me,” I said and then a soft voice replied to me.

“Do not mention me to anybody”

It seemed to reach my ears from behind. I turned around so fast that I felt I had snapped my neck. But the direction from which the voice had come was devoid of any living being.

All I could see were leaves and branches. Why was this person playing hide and seek with me?

“B-but why are you hiding from me? I…I am not going to harm you,” I offered. I knew I did not look like a scary predator, but I could not understand what this person wanted from me.

The voice let out a deep, rumbling laughter. “You cannot harm me, but the people around you can and will”

The voice was speaking mysteriously, and I felt all the more intrigued.

“What people around me? Who will harm you?”

The voice seemed to be of a female, but I could not quite ascertain the age of the woman based on just the voice alone.

When I did not receive an answer, I asked again.

However, instead of answering me, I received a question.

“What is your name?” The woman asked me instead, though she was still hiding from me.

At least she was talking. Maybe she was just being cautious. But since she helped me, I decided to be honest.

“My name is Zenovia. What is yours? And why are you here in the forest? What were those vines?” I asked, but the woman dodged my questions yet again.

The voice seemed to echo through the forest, not letting me trace it back to the location of the speaker who was lurking in the woods. At one point it seemed to come from the right, at others from the left, as if the speaker was circling me.

Though how she was doing, it was a mystery to me.

just why was she not

grave danger. Do

mysteriousness was really confusing me.

you.”

Can you at least give me a name?”

pause that I feared she was never going

Do

forest was black again, and I sensed that

back on my feet and tried to stop her. This was a weird encounter, but I needed answers.

I not trust him?”

he is done

words held a bitter tone, but the way she spoke of Callahan told me she

say that?” I tried

flashing through my mind. Was there a rogue somewhere who wanted to hurt him? Was I being used as a pawn? But

against Callahan. And Sid was convinced Callahan was not the man

why did my

getting very confusing.

did not even notice that she had not

answer me,

you want to thank me for saving your

“Do what?”

don’t mention

what you want from me. You have not shown your face or told me your name. How can I

a little stupid, but then I could not trust a stranger saying that Callahan

I had thought of him wanting to choke me to death, but he had gotten plenty of chances already to

or the sweetest gentleman I had ever come across.

killed me long ago if

will meet again.”

before I could enquire further, a bright light shone on my face abruptly. It was so

winced as I threw my hands in front of my

my eyes, and I

I was confused.

in the forest? How did I come here?

single satisfactory answer to my questions. There was only a lingering feeling, a light caress on my mind as if I had learnt

told me that

the back of my head and tried to recall,

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