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23:PART 1

Bees hummed in and out of the pennyroyal. I inhaled its minty smell and continued on, delighting in the sound of my feet sliding through the leaves.
"So, do you know which direction we're going off to?" I asked, there was the slightest hint in my voice, that we weren't heading to a right place.
The light was fading, creating new shadows and dark patches around me. Eyes glimmered from tree hollows. The wind wailed between distorted trunks, carrying the sickly stink of wood rot.
I moved faster to catch up with Dylan, ignoring the briars that caught at my jeans, the damp leaves that grimed my skin; my lips were murmuring a soft prayer, to safely get us home.
Dylan was cautiously moving; his leg work was so swift and quick, delicate but strong. He was making a path through the jungle-like forest, to get us home, quickly. “Be careful, there could be anything dangerous- this is a forest; there could be wild foxes, wolves or even bears,” He stopped. “I don’t know much about this forest, but it looks pretty old,” Another pause. “We have to make sure we don’t separate; always keep beside me,” He was being uptight, there was a sort of worried tone in his voice, it was reaching out to me. He cared for me.
I lifted my face, letting the light and shadow dance across my skin. “Dylan, I’m not sure this is the righ-“ I paused, and then stopped moving, there was a strange noise coming from behind us. Dylan must’ve heard the strange loud racket as well, because he also stopped.
He quietly placed his index finger over his lips, motioning me to be quiet. “Don’t say anything,” He whispered softly, under his breath. And then he walked away from me, to the empty desert, with nothing but trees and bushes in sight. “Nothing, there is nothing here,” He said, frustrated. "Then what was that noise about?" He muttered under his breath and then slowly came back towards me, not knowing of the creature behind him. A bear.