K: The Awakening (The Shadow Chronicles Book 1)
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Having heard what the group of strangers had to say, Lucas looked down at Nina, “What do you think?”
She pulled Kajol in tighter, scrutinizing the faces surrounding her, “I think we should go. We didn’t come all this way just to go back.”
“And the rest of you?” Gabriel asked, “And don’t worry. If you do wish to go back then one of us will help you get out of the forest, either way the decision is yours.”
The other two families turned to one another. The first to speak up was a young lady cradling her toddler son, “We will go,” she answered leaning into the arms of the young man traveling with her, “I don’t want to go back.”
“Us as well,” the man with the lantern said, “My daughter will be thirteen this year and I won’t have her working the road day in and day out as I and her mother have been forced to do.”
“Then follow us,” Janil said as she and her husband turned and headed off the trail leading them into the darkness. Smiling back at them over her shoulder she added, “I promise you’re not going to regret your decision.”