Chapter 0343 Nina My friends and I sat around the fire, listening quietly to the crackling of the logs and the sounds of the forest around us. It was so pitch black that we couldn’t see anything beyond the dim orange glow cast by the first.

Everything else beyond that was nothing but inky blackness, despite the fact that the moon was full in the sky.

It made no sense; there had to have been some sort of spell on this forest, as though someone was trying to slow us down or get us lost.

We were all exhausted, but none of us felt safe enough to sleep. Every so often, we would hear some sort of strange sound in the forest and we

would all leap up out of fear, shining our flashlights frantically into the darkness only to find that nothing was there. It felt like tricks were being played on us. Maybe, if we got tricked enough times into thinking that the sounds we heard were all in our head, someone would ambush us from the shadows. It was like the boy who cried wolf.

“Um... Maybe we should try to sleep in shifts,” Lori finally said, breaking the silence. “I don’t think it’s super helpful if we’re all sleep deprived. I think we’re starting to see things.” “There’s no way I’m sleeping out here,” Jessica grumbled as she pulled her jacket closer around her shoulders. sᴇaʀᴄh thᴇ FɪndNovᴇl.nᴇt website on Gøøglᴇ to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.

“It’s too creepy.” «1 think we should just keep moving,”

Matt finally said, standing. “The longer we sit out here, the easier of a target we are to anyone who might want to hurt us.” Luke shot me a glance over the fire. I shook my head; we needed to stay put.

I couldn’t quite explain why, but I somehow felt safer staying in one spot.

lose each other if we were

anyone needs to sleep, then sleep. I think we're safe as

not even me. I was more on guard than ever, because I had a sinking feeling that

but I didn’t think that we were really

many minions Selena had in this world.

I didn’t know how long we had been sitting there, but it felt like we were sitting there for an eternity, and even my back started to hurt from being so tense. Still staying next to

light could have illuminated the forest; then, I would have felt confident continuing on our journey. But I knew that Selena knew we were here. I could sense it. As twins, we were more connected than I had previously realized. I was funny, because I had never once thought that I had a

made our bond stronger, because I felt a strange connection

the fact that I had

through the portal. It was only for a split second, but I felt an unmistakable feeling of dread. In. my mind, a single image flashed for that brief moment: an image of Selena’s body laying next to mine. We were both dead. But I knew that it didn’t have to end up that way. If I could stop her without killing her, then neither of us would die; and yet, if I did have to kill her, I knew that I wouldn’t be able to survive. The bond between us was too strong, and if one of us died, then so would

knew that I would try everything I could to not have anyone die,

on it. 1 didn’t know if she was working with the Crescents or

was no telling exactly what she would use him to accomplish. All T knew was that she planned on using him for

of thought was broken by another sound in the

wide as mine. This sound was far louder than the sounds we had heard before, and it

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