Jadis hiked through the dark, misty forest, alert and anxious.

She’d been on countless hunts before, but this one was making her jittery for some reason she couldn’t quite explain. The air was eerily still, and she yearned to hear the sounds of animals and insects, but even the animals seemed to be still. As if they were all holding their breathe. And waiting.

She looked at her orb. It gave off a faint green glow and the cloud inside it slowly cleared to reveal a giant, overbearing willow. She sighed and focused again ahead. She’d been hoping to find a sign that she was on the wrong path, and she should be going elsewhere.

But it looked like she’d have to keep going. This wasn’t a task she could abandon. She’d already accepted the payment, and anyway she had a reputation to maintain. She had never failed before, and she wasn’t going to now.

She thought back to her first hunt, tasked with capturing the mystical wyvern. The men had laughed when she’d barged in to the office and proclaimed she’d do it. They hadn’t been laughing when she’d come back.

She grinned as she remembered.

A twig snapped behind her.

She froze.

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