Library: It never ends

It was a chilling autumn night, air filled with the scent of a coming winter. The forest swayed softly in the wind and a waxing moon flickered amongst the leaves. A young fox sat still in the slightly wet moss looking up to the sky, its ears continuously turning towards any sudden sounds around him. The fox raised his nose and sniffed the air that had started to move like just before a rain hits the ground. It turned its head against the wind and saw the trees bending with the wind. The bushes and the forest floor started to move unnaturally, and the wind grew stronger. The fox jumped away from the small clearing and vanished into the undergrowth at the last second when the trees made a wailing noise, bent aside and a woman crashed through the forest as if she was bending the nature around her to make way. She was wearing a full white gown, and her hand was gripping a curved blade. The next second she was gone, leaves brustling on the ground and the wind settling softly. The fox stared after her, and blinked his eyes curiously. Her head was filled with fear, despair, guilt and regret. She used all her might to fly through the forest which had been her friend as long as she could recall, and never in her life she would have thought that her worst nightmare might come true just there. She cursed herself for thinking that she had won a war instead of a battle, and now she was paying the price. Her arrogance might cost her more than she could handle, and she felt sick like shed never felt before. She let out another call, blasting through the forest like a pulsing wave searching for her daughter. She had gone missing few moments ago, and Nasli had felt it all too well. It was like a part of you just had just vanished, gone numb and unresponsive. Nasli stormed through the forest, sending wave after wave of total despair, making the dew glimmer in the grass like every drop were a small firefly. Finally, she felt a response. It was faint and distorted, but it was a reply nevertheless. She turned and headed towards the response like it were a shining beacon in the mist for ship to follow. Her feet no longer touched the ground and the air crackled around her as she arrived to a small patch of clear ground. Her daughter was there, trembling and holding her arms towards Nasli. She felt that something was not right, but was too relieved to keep in focus as she saw her daughter seemingly unharmed. "What happened," she panted, "where did you go?". "I don't know mother, I just woke up here." Si-nasli replied between her tears. "Who took you? Where are they now?". Si-nasli ran to meet her mother, "I'm not sure, they just vanished when they felt you looking for me.", she was crying desperately. The moment their arms met, Nasli realized the full extent of her error, she had been deceived. "We did not go...", she heard the too-familiar sound in her ear, drawing breath so distinctively that the moment seemed like an eternity, "...anywhere.". It was too late to do anything. The hands of her daughter had started to turn black, and the sharp claws that used to be fingers tightened around her arms with such force that she screamed out loud. As the disgusting figure took shape slowly, a huge tail came flying through the air and hit Nasli before she could do anything. The force of the impact was devastating. The creature let her motionless body drop to the wet grass that started to slowly turn red. A figure started to form slowly from the darkness, flickered a bit and took the shape of a human. The figure, completely clad in a dark robe, spoke with a low voice: "Are you satisfied?" K'xet turned its head, making its disfigured body create sickening noises as it moved. "No...", it took a deep breath, air wheezing from in its lungs "...nothing will undo...", it spoke with great effort, "what they did to me." The robed figure turned its head towards the lifeless body of Nasli who stared back with empty eyes. "Then why?". K'xet turned its head towards Nasli, stood up to its full length showing itself in the moonlight. The robed figure shivered a bit and turned its head away from the sight. "...I restored balance.", it formed the words slowly, "Now, there is a child without a mother... ", it drew breath again that sounded like something was freezing rapidly, "...and a mother without a child.". The robed figure asked softly, "You know that this does not end here, they will come after you. Even if you did not start this.". The shapeshifter hissed silently, "...I hope so.", and turned away. "Let her go.". From the depths of the forest, they heard a party of people shouting and running towards them. "You'd better go. You cannot beat them all.", the robed man whispered, but the form of the shapeshifter had already started to move towards the shadows. The silhouette of the disformed shapeshifter began to change and it merged itself into the forest, disappearing completely. The sounds of the party forcing its way through the forest were near. The hooded figure sighed, began to flicker and vanished. As it faded into the thin air, not leaving even a footprint behind, a young girl was laying on the ground beside the lifeless body of her mother, breathing softly.

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