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.

she not showing me

You are in grave danger. Do

blinked. This mysteriousness was really confusing me.

you.”

Can you at least give me

pause that I feared she was

King. Do

said, and then all of a sudden, the brightness disappeared. The forest was black again, and I sensed that the woman was leaving… to wherever she wanted

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

I not trust him?”

will use you and throw you away when he is done with

the way she spoke of Callahan told

would you say that?” I

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

to get to me through Sid so that he could use me as a leverage against Callahan. And Sid was convinced Callahan was not

did my heart say

getting very confusing.

was so lost in thoughts that I did not even notice

answer me, please?”

thank me for saving your life, you shall

“Do what?”

don’t mention

you are or what you want from me. You have

but then I could not trust a stranger saying that Callahan was going to kill me.

choke me to death, but he had

was particularly nice to me or the

have killed me long ago if he

will meet again.”

a bright light shone on my face abruptly.

hands in front of my face to block the

my

was confused.

did I come here? Had Callahan dumped me here in the middle of the night?

brain could not give me a single satisfactory answer to my questions. There was only a lingering feeling, a light caress on my

that

scratched the back of my head and tried to recall, but a sharp

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