Chapter 88
She threw caution to the wind, intentionally put aside what her mother drilled into her and she headed for where the fire was.
This wasn’t like when her and her siblings tried to prove they could out perform one another, she wasn’t being brave or cocky.
She was feeling reckless. She had no home to return to and while she could easily find and make another, what was the point? She shook her head and kept moving.
It was difficult trying to find the path she took to get to where the water was but she figured that didn’t matter much. She spotted the blackened portion of the forest while she was on the tree and she simply moved towards it. Occasionally she had to move around a large boulder on her route but otherwise nothing alarming happened.
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At one point she took too many paths around boulders that she lost her sense of direction. She had to climb another tree again and once she spotted the blackened forest she quickly made her way to the floor and restarted her unwise journey.
She expected the smell to hit her again with a vengeance so she kept a vigilant eye out for the white protruding things she got a half glimpse of. She was also shallowly breathing through her mouth as a precaution. Tasting that foul stench might be worse in some ways but she had to keep her eyes from tearing up.
She wanted to be prepared for the experience unlike her last time where it rudely woke her up from a her slumber and assaulted her all the way towards the water source.
Yeah that smell most likely saved her life but she’d truly have rather been baked alive than be awoken to such a disgusting and horrible scent.
She slowly made her way forward until she saw the white thing sticking out of the ground. She completely stopped and stayed frozen where she was. Desperately wishing the wind didn’t blow her way.
It did.
But strangely there was no scent. She stared in confusion. The flowers she memorized that were responsible for this stench never stopped smelling until winter.
What was going on?