I woke up suddenly in the night, the absence of a familiar weight on my chest told Ava had left for her room already.
I was refreshed and the exhaustion of the previous day was gone now. I got up from the bed and stretched.
From the pale moonlight streaming through my window, I knew it was midnight.
The cold wind outside seed to call my na. The winds humd a steady lody that resonated with the thrum of energy in my body and I stepped out of the room into the field.
Emily's words ca back to as I stood in the front yard. "I know you won't listen to but please don't practice magic anymore till tomorrow when I co back from school. I'll have answers for you by then".
I thought about it deeply and considered how if anything went wrong again, I wouldn't have anyone to protect this ti. The wisest course of action was to avoid practicing magic till Emily ca back with answers.
I decided to practice magic regardless.
I planned to beco the strongest mage in the world, I couldn't be achieve that if I was scared of my own powers.
I ran back to the room and grabbed my knife, then I went back outside and sat.
I held the knife steadily and focused on the mana ring around my heart, this ti the energy running down my arm didn't feel cold so I felt it was normal. I forced it into the knife and… nothing happened.
I sighed in frustration and let the knife drop to the ground.
What was I doing wrong? What was the missing key that would help unlock my mana control?
Determination, maybe? A voice in my head taunted.
I grabbed my knife off the ground and focused on the ring of energy thrumming around my heart, I pushed it down my arm and goosebumps traveled down my spine as I felt that familiar chill travel with the energy. I didn't back down though, I forced it into the knife.
The knife flew from my hand and landed in the street outside the fence.
I let out a loud frustrated sigh and got up to go pick the knife.
The moon smiled down on us, , the plants in the farm and the knife that now lay on the ground before , reflecting the smile back to the moon.
I picked it up and dusted it, I was about to turn around and head ho when a sudden movent caught my eye.
I peered closely and saw a human like figure walking down the street.
Sothing was however peculiar about this figure, it seed to have a lot of fur around its body, also it's gait was inhuman, it walked like stiff-legged, like it had no joints.
A tingle of fear traveled round my body and I wanted to run back into the farmhouse, head straight to my door and lock it.
But sothing in made stand there, made curious about the being, made want to trail it to see where it was going.
So I walked quietly behind the figure, my knife in my hand, my heart in my throat pounding loudly. I didn't know which the figure would hear first, my footsteps or my heartbeat.
Whoooshh!
The wind blew loudly around us and the figure stopped, it sniffed the air as if it detected sothing that shouldn't be there.
I imdiately ducked behind the nearest tree, I held my breath and ntally counted to ten, when I was done, I peeped out at the street, the figure had continued its stiff-legged walk.
I let out my breath and continued trailing it.
The hairs on my skin stood up as I followed this figure, all my senses were at alert and I was hyperaware of every sound, my eyes scanned the area intently, ready to catch any slight movent.
Every twitch, every sound made by birds or crickets, every sound made my leaves in the air, my ears picked up everyone as I stalked the figure ahead of .
The figure didn't stop walking and we soon reached the forest.
I stood outside the forest for a long while, debating if I should go in or not.
I had co to far to go back empty handed, yet following a strange creature into the forest alone at night didn't seem like a sensible choice to make, it was like singing a death wish.
I stood in front of the forest and considered every possibility. The figure could be aware of following it and decide to lure into the forest where it would attack .
Even if that wasn't the case, the forest was crawling with beast monsters and I wasn't in the mood to fight any.
I turned back and decided to go.
However I felt myself unwilling to leave, it was like there was a hand on my shoulder guiding towards the forest.
I sighed and stepped into the forest.
The figure was nowhere to be found and I increased my speed so I could catch up with him.
After a few minutes of walking, the figure appeared in my line of sight again and I slowed down.
We continued this steady pace till I started to see a large pool of light in the front.
The closer we got, the brighter the pool of light got until eventually the figure got directly in front of the light.
It was still too far for to see it clearly so I stalked closer and what I saw nearly made scream.
The light source was a portal, and by the portal stood two identical figures, one of them was the figure I stalked.
The two figures were hideous, they stood tall like humans but they had grotesque faces, the faces of beasts, fur coated every part of their bodies and when they stood, they bent at the waist slightly at an unnatural angle. They stared into space with eyes redder and deeper than any eyes I'd ever seen, they seed like beast animals themselves, just more human looking.
They were standing by the portal, obviously guarding it, but they were doing more than that.
From the portal ca out all sorts of beast animals, small and large, slow and fast, harmless and harmful, they all poured out of the portal and ran into the forest.
So this is how beast monsters get into the forest. I thought to myself. I wonder if anyone else knows this.
After a while, no beast animals ca out of the portal again, the two figures grunted in communication, they stepped into the portal and it closed behind them.
I turned on my heels and ran out of the forest.
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