Chapter 0340 Nina My friends and I jumped through the portal just before it closed. We came out on the other side in the dark forest, although we weren't in the same location like the other times when I went through portals.

As we slowly sat up and got our bearings, Luke was the first to stand quickly and look around.

“1 think I have a pretty good idea of where we are,” he said, pacing around.

It was dark, so I flipped on the flashlight on my phone and stood. We didn’t seem to be in any particular location of note; it was nothing but forest all around. I was a bit amazed that Luke was able to tell where we

were, because to me it looked like nothing but pine trees.

walked at the front of the group alongside me as

Admittedly, I hadn’t thought much about it ahead of time. I was so preoccupied with

BONUS subsequently opening a portal that I didn’t spend the time to make a plan, and

our way through the woods was slow. The darkness fell on us like a heavy blanket, and the canopy of trees was so thick that the light from the full moon only broke through at random intervals. Even our flashlights were only useful for a few feet in front of us, and none of us wanted to waste our batteries so early on in the journey. Not only that, but Luke kept making it extremely clear that having too many flashlights could give away our location to people who we might have wanted to be hiding from, and our clumsy progress was making a lot

hill to let everyone catch their breath — mostly Lori and Jessica — and looked around with an almost

heart sink as I

don’t know where we’re going anymore,

finally shook his head. “It’s just so dark. I think I got us turned around at some point because everything looks the same in this goddamn forest.” I gritted my teeth. But I

as though there was some sort of dark

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