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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

magic here,

dense, thick with the scent of

inside me, restless and alert. Something

to the

something the rest of us couldn't. Austin stretched, pretending to be casual, but the way

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his shoulders and

"Well," he

his hands into his pockets,

to the fact that

silence stretched around us,

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

softly against the dirt.

grove, I felt it. A pull. It was faint

like a tug inside my

faltered for a moment, my fingers brushing against

than it should

Stormi...

my mind, urgent yet curious. She felt it

"Something wrong?" Elijah's voice

quiet but watchful.

knew

the old man was

kicked at a fallen branch, watching it crumble into dust.

grinned. "Damn. I was hoping for floating ghosts or

studying something on the ground. His brows furrowed in

fingers. A small flame appeared at his fingertips, casting an orange glow

I

over the earth.

as the firelight revealed a pattern-a circle etched into

surrounding the entire

voice was grim. "The trees weren't just

of his words pressed down on all

over the edge of the boundary.

could feel the magic humming beneath

just any spell,"

how I

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