Jade pov
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A month. That's how much time they had. It wasn't any fault of ours. Nor was it a fault of the container. It was just… Gah- I let my fingers rest against the unbearable cold snow. A moment passed as my hair fluttered in the wind. Preparations needed to be made. Information needed to be gained. And… and I needed to convince Gabriel…
He- He wanted to fight that thing… he wanted to go raging against the silence. He didn't want to go quietly into the night… no- no he wanted to fight against that thing. Wanted - desperately - the excitement that would flood through his veins.
And I- Well I would've been for it. I really would. But- As I made my way through the forest and into the silent ecosystem, there was a certain disquietness about it. Of course there were the animals. Forest critters that filled the background with quiet noise. But when I came across a beast.
A true one.
