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to see to it that my granddaughter gets here as soon as possible, there is a lot to discuss.”
    Zane nodded and headed towards the door to escape to the retreat to his own house, somewhere he could think and be alone even if it was only for a while but before he made it out of the cozy lounge, he was stopped once again by the old woman who he had become so fond of during his stay in the cottage.
    “Don’t force her Zane, she has the stubbornness of her grandmother. Forcing her will be the one sure way to get her to never enter these woods again.”
    “Oh believe me, I know. The resemblance is uncanny Kara. Physical and otherwise. She has your nose, your eyes, and your stubbornness. No one could deny that you are related, not even her.”
    A solitary tear rolled over Kara’s cheek but this time Zane let it slide right down to pool in the corner of her lips gave her a small smile and walked away.
     
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    Charlie ran the whol e way home and collapsed on the top step where she broke down into tears. This couldn’t be happening to her, she only turned eighteen about a month ago, she should be enjoying her life. She had taken a year off schooling to decide on what she wanted to do with her life and have some fun while she was at it. She wanted to leave Tole, get out and see the lights of the big cities. She wanted to rest and read and draw. She didn’t want to be thrown into the middle of some war and to make matters worse, be told that she was supposedly the peace-keeper between two races, just because she was told that she been born from both.
    She had no idea what reason Zane would have to lie to her and although deep down she knew he wasn’t lying about anything he had said in the woods, she had to find out for herself. She struggled to regain her composure before going inside. There was no way in hell she was going to tell El’ and Matt about what had happened, they wer e already going to be asking a hundred questions about how she got so dirty and bruised and worst of all why she was bleeding, she didn’t want to add crying into that mixture of things as well.
    Just remember what Ma used to tell you when you were little and you would fall of your bike; ‘Breathe Charlie, just breathe.’
    She closed her eyes drew in a deep breath and exhaled slowly, the hammering of her heart slowing, the tears that fell from her eyes stopping in their tracks. She licked her lips dissolving the remaining tears that had pooled in the corners, straightened out her shirt and grabbed the handle, taking one last breath before she was walked into the interrogation that was coming. And as suspected when she walked in and found her housemates sitting in the downstairs lounge of their three story house, she was bombarded with questions.
    “What the hell happened to you Charlie? Where have you been? It’s almost midnight.”
    “I got lost in the woods, I fell down trying to find my way out.”
    They didn’t believe her, she had never been able to lie well and right now she sounded like a robot saying rehearsed lines. She hoped as hard as she could that her friends would just drop it and to her amazement they did. El’ returned to the movie they were watching first and after a few more seconds of staring, Matt followed.
    Well that was easy. Maybe a little too easy…
    Charlie assumed that El’ and Matt had more pressing matters to worry about and shrugged it off as good luck as she moved through the big house to the shower. Washing off the dirt and grime of the night settled her some but didn’t completely get rid of the feelings circulating through her body. She was relaxed sure, but in the back of her mind she knew that things would never be the same again, she knew what she must do and the first step in doing so was getting out of the comfort and warmth of the shower and getting dressed. She loathed getting out