The Obelisk

-Chapter 83-

“No!” Nyx cried.

She could hear her friends voices as she leapt to her feet, trembling slightly as she struggled to focus on her surroundings. She tried to run forward, only to stop right in front of Forest. His blue-beige face was full of worry. “Nyx?”

She blinked and turned around to see Cyan and Moonbeam, with Rust, Spark and Crimson behind them, looking confused. She shook her head and shoved past them all, bursting out of the cave and running away.

“Nyx!” Moonbeam rushed out of the cave and went after her, but Nyx was faster. “What are you— come back!”

She didn’t look back as she ran, trying to hold back the tears she wanted to cry. She ignored all the voices calling her name as she ran past everyone in the camp. Rain began to fall, wet and cold on her scales as she fled into the deep part of the forest.

‘I messed it up.’

She ran and ran, the wet, shaking trees all around dripping and laughing at her.

‘I got in the way and ruined the whole thing,’ She thought to herself, wiping rain and tears from her face. ‘I knew it. I knew it wasn’t me.

But that wasn’t real. It was just a dream. What if I’m wrong?’

Right now, she was pretty sure she was right.

Shivering, Nyx slid down a small ledge and under a tree, curled herself up into a ball, and cried there.