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Airabelle's Narrative Fiction

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There once was a girl who lived in the woods, silently watching all that passed. Abandoned at the forest’s edge at the age of three, the child had screamed and screamed until found by an old hermit who could stand the noise no longer. “Hush, child. You’ll wake the bog monsters and they’ll eat you for lunch. Is that what you want, little child? To be eaten by bog monsters?” he asked her. The young child promptly quit her wailing. The hermit brought the child to his home, hiding her in his cloak, sheltering her from the elements. She grew up as Airabelle in the hermit’s tree house until time caught up with him and he passed to the next realm. She was only fourteen when he passed. Bored of the constant lonely silence, she liked to listen to the woods and watch as the occasional creature came near her house. She always hoped to hear or see someone who looked like her, but she never saw anyone remotely similar. Most creatures had no ears or had flat ears, or only eight fingers instead of ten, and some didn’t even have noses. But one day, Airabelle saw someone—someone who looked like her, with the exception of only a few factors. This creature was a boy, who seemed scared of the same forest she loved. …show more content…

she thought to herself. Without thinking of the possible consequences, she called out to the boy, “Why are you afraid?” He stopped immediately and spun around, looking blindly through the trees searching for her. “Who’s there? I-I-I have a bow, you know. S-stay

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