Shangri-la
Chapter 20
Stopping, Iris looked around at the tall dark forest encroaching on either side of the road and shivered. She didn’t know what it was that she was going to do–she didn’t even know what she had intended to do when she had first started running. All she had thought about was getting away, escaping to be by herself, and now that she was alone she wasn’t sure that she wanted the solitude anymore.
The shadows were lengthening and growing darker as dusk approached. The sky was already pale with a hint of a blush forming. It was beautiful in a frightening sort of way, and for the first time in her life Iris thought of the sunset as a time of death. She didn’t want night to come, and she didn’t want to be standing alone on the side of the road when the darkness engulfed her.
What she wanted was Lotus.
Collapsing to her knees, Iris looked up at the tree tops and wailed, fresh tears burning her already read eyes. Why did she have to feel that way? And why did it have to hurt?
A small sound cut off Iris’s sob, and she quickly looked behind her. Standing silently a few feet away was a panting red wolf.
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