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Chapter One Faster. Faster. I had to push myself to go even faster. They were so close that I could feel the cold rolling from underneath the black fog surrounding their unholy bodies. Faceless bodies screamed their fury at me as I ran from my latest hiding space. My feet pounded into the ground as I pushed myself even harder, and the buildings moved by me in a blur. Spying a small space up ahead I believed to be a street, a smile slipped onto my lips. Before I reached the opening, the black fog slipped around my feet, forcing me to a stop. My feet stopped, but the rest of my body didn’t. I only stopped once I hit a trashcan. Adrenaline pumped through my body as my heart rate picked up. “Seriously, guys! Do you always have to be this horrible? I know you’re …show more content…

The hairs on the back of my neck were standing up as though someone was watching me. I always trusted my gut, and this whole situation just reinforced that thought. Lost in my head, I continued flying until the sharp staccato of a car horn hit my sensitive ears. Looking below, I spied a far reaching forest with a small town nestled in its center. So much different than the city I had left. I could make out children playing, a group of teens running around a track, and neat houses with white picket fences. Okay, so I don’t really mean that whole cookie cutter thing, but it was so picturesque that they should have them. Scanning the ground, a small river meandered through the forest just below, maybe a mile from the town. I would need a new place to stay. I tucked my wings in and started falling. Wind rushed around my face, euphoria bubbled as I free-falled. Seconds before hitting the tops of the pines, I spread my wings. I must have misjudged the distance because instead of my feet brushing the tops, my feet collided with the trunk of one of the trees. My clumsiness sent me sprawling into the canopy of the trees. Pain shot through my limbs as I tumbled through the needle laden

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