Bring Him Back

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Deep in the snowy pine forest, a young girl was running barefoot for her life.

She was almost fifteen. Her name was Kristina Braun, but for the last several months, she’d barely been aware of her own identity.

They had taken it from her.

They would strip your soul away, if you let them. They would steal your mind.

They. She had no idea who it was who’d been holding her captive for so long and doing all these horrible things to her. She only knew that she must get away — and now, suddenly, after all these months of pretending to go along with them while secretly planning her escape, her one chance had finally come.

Except that they had no intention of letting her get away so easily. As she stumbled wildly through the snow, tree branches whipping her face and her bare arms torn by brambles and thorns, she could hear the voices of her pursuers close behind.

‘I see her!’ yelled one of them. An instant later, there was a muffled crack and something thwacked into a pine trunk just a few inches from her. Not a bullet, but some kind of dart. All she could do was keep on running. The trees seemed to thin out ahead. Could there be a road? Could there be a village?

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