Chapter 83

Odd occurrence after odd occurrence. Where has the fire gone? What is happening?

She was on edge and everything felt wrong.

When… when she was little her mother taught her and her siblings to always remember that If she felt like that to: run, hide, or stay very still.

But she honestly wanted to do none of those things. She felt a something within. She wanted to know what was going on.

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Fires don’t just stop like that. And… where did the water come from? When she collapsed, she remembered clearly that there was water on every surface. Even a small puddle in front of her. Why? How? Where did that smell come from?

She wasn’t familiar with this location at all but she was familiar with that smell and the flower responsible for it long ago. She made sure to memorize it, but she saw no flower in her sprint away.

She had many questions and no answers.

Well there… there was no danger in going back now that the fire was gone. And surely even the predators were long gone by now.

But even if there were she … she didn’t care much if they got her. There was no one left.

She felt hollow.

She closed her eyes and looked within. She stayed like that for a long while and she found a flicker of something.

Curiosity.

She dwelled on that for a while. She had nothing and no one but right now that flicker of curiosity was all she was.

She opened her eyes, decision made she began her climb down the tree