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His smirk flowed into his words, and back was the friendly man I had come to heavily rely on.
Maybe that had been a mistake.
It was comforting to have the company of the animals in the dark forest though. Animals had always been oddly unafraid of me. I have no memory of it any other way, maybe when I was very young. Had they not been more distant when I was with other people, I might not have ever realized they didn’t usually get so close to humans. Whatever the reason, I was grateful for it. It drove me to want to do my job to the best of my abilities. All creatures deserved to be loved and taken care of.
Ve sonra onu gördüm.
Gördüğüm ilk yaşayan ay güvesi.
Bulmak için ülke çapında dolaştığım yaratık.
Onu gördüğümde neredeyse dizlerimin üzerine düşüyordum. Erken gelmişler.
Willow Springs'e varmalarına üç hafta kalmıştı.
I looked up, fighting against the rain to look into his cold blue eyes. I tried desperately to kick and scream, but the few hits that connected against his hard stomach and thighs seemed to hurt me and not him. Even standing as he was, he towered over me as if I still lay on the ground.
“Please, you’re hurting me,” I cried, feeling completely helpless.
“Why won’t you die?” His voice was so quiet and deep. It was like a tiger’s growl, powerful even in a whisper.
The tinted evening air softly rustled the pine branches in warning, and I suddenly remembered exactly where I was headed. I shivered with the thoughts of how horrible that forest had made me feel.
And then I saw it.
The first living luna moth I had ever seen.
The creature I had moved across the country to find.
I nearly fell to my knees at the sight of it. They were early.
Three weeks until they were supposed to arrive in Willow Springs.
“Do they have a name? What are they called?” I asked curiously.
The mushrooms that would help me the most were only rumored to even exist. I could use a less potent variety, but I wasn’t entirely sure how well it would work.
He turned to me with a tired and heavy expression.
“Destroying angels.”