The Witch's Shadow

the sky. The Hollow Wood had always been a place of whispers-a cursed stretch of forest where th

to pierce the darkness ahead. She had promised herself she would never set foot in the Hollow Wood.

gers had

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ten-too small, too scared. He wouldn't have ru

d. The cold air wrapped around her throat like unseen fingers. E

she he

Soft. Alm

ena

was empty. The lantern's flickering lig

Her voic

r came aga

, come

e was too smooth, too knowing. It slithered thro

rip. Then, she saw them-strange symbols carved into the trees, o

e shadows, a figu

e hidden beneath the

ed into her mind, bypas

't have come

tly. The darkness pressed in, swallo

the world