Chapter 134: Trap in the Woods

Vera

The forest was painfully quiet tonight. A cold, damp air wrapped tightly around me as I stood perfectly still in the small clearing where Liora and I always held our secret meetings.

The tall, bare trees looked like dark, skeletal figures under the faint silver light that managed to slip through their thin, leafless branches.

I stamped the thick soles of my boots hard against the cold, damp ground, trying desperately to chase off the deep chill that was ...