Chapter 124: Nightmare
She had been wandering around since she got lost and all she saw around were huge trees. She could hear the grumbling of her stomach, devoid of any proper food. All that she could eat were some leaves that she thought were edible and also were soft enough to chew.
Another night came by and again she carried her frightened self on the branch of a tree, leaned her back on the tree trunk, crying with fear and longing to see her family, missing her home. She wrapped her arms on her knees thinking of ways to ge out of this place.
"Mom, dad..." she cried... She almost forgot, her parents were already dead. She only had her grandfather now... so she whispered, "grandpa." Her voice was already raucous. She’s been shouting all day long and now she felt as if she had no more voice. Her body was very weak and she felt cold, probably because of the heavy rain and thunder last night. She was too scared, "Please no more rain, thunder and lightning. Grandpa, please find me soon," she whimpered while crying. Her body winced when she heard another thunder roaring from the sky. Her whole body shook in terror....
She tried to stand up to shout once more. "Grandpa!!!!" But ended up falling on the ground. She felt so helpless that she burst out crying hard.
Suddenly she heard a voice. A voice shouting her name. "Yera!!!" Yera!!!" Someone came, calling her name in the dark. She quickly stood up and shouted in her toddler’s voice, "Grandpa! Grandpa! Grandpa!"
She saw a beam of light coming at her. A woman was almost near her when she saw her being attacked.
"No! No!!!" Yera heard the woman scream. The woman’s face was a bit blurry to her because of the tears that were clouding her eyes. Yera felt someone abruptly pull her while the woman seemed to be fighting the other people around. She was shaking, totally scared of whatever was happening.
"Be quiet kid..." hushed a man’s voice who held her tightly. Yera felt the man holding her panic. Immediately, he put a knife under her neck as the man exclaimed, "Don’t you dare come near or this kid will be dead!!!" But the woman was fast. She snatched Yera from the grab of that man and shouted, "Run!" Yera heard the voice of that lady and she did as told. But because it was dark, Yera fell down, but she managed to grab onto something and tried to get up. She felt a hand grabbing and pulling her up.
"Don’t be scared darling, grab tightly onto my hand and don’t look down. Just look at me darling." it was the woman from before, Yera was sure of it because of the soothing voice and loving tone she had.