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Edlyn has never fit in. With her unusual white hair and silver eyes, she sticks out from her village of brown. To make matters worse, unexplainable things tend to happen around her-things that she can't control. In a...
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That night, the sky is filled with dark clouds that unleash the full wrath of a winter thunderstorm onto us.
Alec and I take shelter underneath a tree with low hanging leaves. The branches do little to protect us from the torrent of freezing rain, however, and we're soaked to the bone and shivering within seconds. I hadn't noticed, but during my distress over Rurrous, my clothing had started to burn away again. Alec covered me in the extra layers of clothing that he'd been wearing. He tried not to, but he was shaking all night. Neither of us got much sleep.
Every flash of lightning and earth-shaking rumble of thunder results in more paranoia. What monster will appear in front of us the next time the forest is illuminated by the lightning? Is the ground rumbling because of the thunder, or are ogres charging us?
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In the morning we discover that the map is completely waterlogged and the ink has been smeared. It's completely unreadable.
We use the sun to figure out which direction to walk in, but we still can't be sure that we'll reach Mount Inferno. To make matters worse, Alec's cough has considerably worsened because of the storm last night, and he looks even paler.
It takes everything I have to just put one foot in front of the other.
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