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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

inside me, restless and

turned to the

tense. Isaiah surveyed the are eyes narrowed as if he could see something the rest of us couldn't. Austin stretched, pretending to be casual, but the way his fingers twitched

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his shoulders and

"Well," he

hands into his

to the fact that there's no

stretched around us, pressing against my skin like an

time. Many had been cut down,

crunched softly

deeper into the grove, I felt it.

like a tug

for a moment, my fingers

was cold-colder than it should

Stormi...

in my mind, urgent yet curious. She felt it

"Something wrong?" Elijah's voice

quiet but watchful.

though I knew

exhaled loudly, breaking the tension. "Well, the old man was right.

kicked at a fallen branch, watching

was hoping for floating ghosts or tree

crouched down, studying something on

appeared at his fingertips, casting an orange glow onto the

is it?" I asked,

traced a finger over the earth. "A

the firelight revealed a

the

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

of his words pressed down on

brushing over the edge of

could feel the magic

just any spell," Elijah

how I knew,

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