Box of Secrets

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Zoe ran to the woods.

She couldn't breathe. Coming back felt like a huge mistake but she had nowhere else to go. How was she going to cope?

The woods hadn't changed at all. But the smells and sounds were different. It felt like all her life she had been going everywhere with a veil on her senses and it had been finally lifted. She was experiencing the world anew.

Usually she let herself go senseless in the woods until she was too tired to run anymore and then find her way back.

This time she was not the easily-tired wolfless girl. She had a beast inside her and the breast needed to be let out. The beast directed her to the same clearing which had become Zoe's mind space where she had met Dahlia for the first time.

'You will eventually have to face everything, Zoe.' Dahlia sounded.

Zoe didn't respond so, Dahlia resumed, 'The longer you avoid it, the harder it will hit you when it comes crashing down eventually.'

Zoe felt an ache bubble inside her, making it hard to breat