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We drove to the outskirts of town, following the directions given to

The further we went, the more the landscape changed. The trees grew taller, their trunks thicker, their branches tangled like skeletal fingers reaching toward the sky.

And the sounds-

Or rather, the lack of them.

At first, I barely noticed. The car's engine still hummed, the tires sti crunched

against the dirt road. But as Alex pulled to a stop near an old, weathered sign, I finally realized what was missing.

The world had gone silent.

No birds.

No wind.

Nothing.

Isaiah exhaled. "This is it."

We stepped out of the car.

The forest loomed ahead of us, a black mass of twisting branches.

Austin let out a nervous laugh. "Great. A creepy, haunted forest. Exactly what I wanted."

Isaiah smirked. "Scared?"

Austin scoffed. "No. Just... cautious."

Alex rolled his eyes. "Let's go."

We stepped into the forest.

And immediately, the silence wrapped around us like a vi

It was like stepping into another world.

Every step felt too loud. The snapping of twigs beneath our boots effoed, filling the space where the sounds of nature should have been.

I swallowed hard, trying to steady my

was magic here, we needed to

with the scent of damp earth and decaying wood.

inside me, restless and alert.

turned to the

the rest of us couldn't. Austin stretched, pretending to be casual, but the way his fingers twitched at his

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his shoulders

"Well," he

stuffing his hands into his pockets,

listening to

The eerie silence stretched around us, pressing

once-flowing branches frozen in time. Many had been cut down, their fallen trunks rotting into the

boots crunched softly against the dirt.

grove, I felt it. A pull.

recognized this place. The sensation was like a tug inside my chest, a string of energy connecting me to the

a moment, my fingers brushing against one

cold-colder than it should have

Stormi...

mind, urgent yet curious.

"Something wrong?" Elijah's voice

quiet but watchful.

though I knew we both felt the same

tension. "Well, the old man was right. This place is

at a fallen branch, watching it crumble into dust. "Nothing magical

I was hoping for floating

crouched down, studying something on

flicking his fingers. A small flame appeared at his fingertips, casting

is it?" I asked,

over the earth. "A

the firelight revealed a

the entire

grim. "The trees weren't just cut down.

of his words pressed

brushing over the edge of the boundary.

feel the magic humming

any spell," Elijah muttered. "It's

I didn't know how I knew,

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