It was over.
Cien stood at the edge of the barrier. He could see the guards moving back and forth around the house, and some were already in the forest searching for him. Tears filled his eyes as he stared at the barrier. He couldn’t cross it. He couldn’t go home. The gatekeepers would know the minute he crossed it. And he will be arrested.
How the hell did everything go so wrong? He had everything planned out so meticulously but it all fell apart in seconds.
He didn’t understand. He wiped away the tears that were running down his face. He reached up to pull his hair feeling stressed out, because for the first time in his life he couldn’t go home. Even when he left his home and went to live with his uncle in the valley of fairies, he always knew that he had a home waiting for him. He
