i got cold feet at seeing the site. my car had been there and now...it was gone. i couldn't help feeling scared...i was terrified.
it was then that i once again heard that terrible voice..."you will not leave".
i shrieked out of fear than anything else. i was chilled to the bone marrow. deciding that the best option was to wait outside the forest for someone from my family to come i sat on the edge of the forest. as i sat there i couldn't shrug off that strange feeling of being watched upon. then some twnty minutes later i heard the sound of running footsteps. i turned around and saw a very old woman, bent double with age running towards me. a lantern was swinging from her hand. she came near me and panting ver hard said,"what are you doing here tonight...i was just out to get some berries when i saw you....don't you know that tonight is full moon...and the forest spirit will come alive tonight at 12?"
i simply gazed awestruck at her.
i was pretty sure she was kiddin me...a way to hook passers by and get some money. i simply said,"i don't know what you are talking about...but my family is coming and if you don't want trouble for yourself...be off!"
she looked at me and said,"many people think we forest tribe people are mad and we joke....they do not heed us....in the end they lose their lives..."
saying this seh started to move away....i was chilled from fear....what if the woman wasn't lying?
but i decided she was and let her wobble off into the darkness......the hours crept by...no one from my family came for me......it was only 7 minutes to midnight....i was ...scared...
to be coontinued
~ishan
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