Chapter 315

Chapter 315

“I’m not letting you go anywhere.”

She stares at me with her wide chestnut eyes, trying to understand me. I spot the matches nearby with a small aerosol can.

“You started the fire, didn’t you?” I ask as the flames move from one charcoaled tree to the next.

“No.” She mutters, but her answer comes out full of desperation and sadness. As if she was a child being scolded over spilt milk

“Your soul tells me differently. The evidence tells me differently”

She turns from me and starts crawling back towards the fire, dragging herself across the forest floor and ignoring every bit of pain she is feeling. (1)