Chapter 22: The FirstBorn

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Lara's Point of View I can feel fear slowly crawling from the soles of my feet. I couldn't stop the spread of goosebumps all over my body as I heightened my senses to get myself ready for any encounter. Everything went quiet for some reason, and the only thing I can hear is my pounding heart. I gulped, trying to calm down. "My, my, look what we have here..." A menacing voice of a man echoed all over the place. I saw how the dryads were alerted. A few seconds after, we heard a loud flapping sound before a silhouette of a winged creature was revealed from the darkest part of the forest. "Get ready," I heard Acorn say as he points his weapon toward the direction of the silhouette. "Did he send you to kill me?" he asked, cracking the dead silence with his devilish laugh. "Has he not

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