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Chapter 15 - Chapter 15 - Pale

Winds blew wildly as bone-chilling cold assaulted a girl who was dyed blue. She was not wearing enough layers of animal skins to survive in such weather. A young man covered with leaves bound by vines was following her as they both climbed the bedrock tree.

The climb did not strain them because they had to keep themselves from falling to their demise. Rather, they had to work hard not to fly off to the sky!

"Aghh!"

Flieday cried out as she stuffed her hand into a crack, her muscles were working overtime for her to not fly out and die by the creature's gravity.

The snow they were finding was stuck on the bases of bedrock leaves. presumably having floated from near the base of the tree into the leaves; thus even water was limited.

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A young girl with pale skin was panting heavily as she held onto a crack. She was on the bark of a humongous tree, covered in a thin layer of leaves which made her tremble with cold. A slightly older man was just behind her, climbing too.

She gritted her teeth as she felt her hold slip; instantly she started floating towards the small group of black leaves at an astonishing speed.

"What the fuck!" Flieday cursed as she noticed that the gravitational pull of the creature was much more potent now. It was ten times stronger, leading her to miscalculate and start to fly towards the Bedrock leaves.

So Flieday tried to grab the small outgrowing bark near her only for her arm to be riddled by cuts. She hissed as her nails flew off; she looked around with a pained expression and checked her covering, trying to find some resources. She looked up towards the leaves, calculating the time she has to live before she crashes into the branch and dies.

30 seconds

She did not find any trees near her, no animals around her either. She herself had some leaves and vines as covering and nothing else.

25 seconds left, damn it!

She quickly unwrapped the vines which held black leaves on her; Using one hand to keep the leaves with her and other to save the vines.

20 seconds! Fuck fuck fuck fuck

She tried to make some sort of cushion with the leaves, folding them in ways to have huge air pockets. Thankfully, she was wearing bedrock leaves, which were not only huge but extremely durable too.

Flieday had stopped thinking about time and panicking, fully focused on trying to survive.

Making the airtight contraption, she used one vine which was once keeping leaves bound to her chest to bind the airtight leaves to her legs.

She knew that the contraption would burst on impact, but that was its job.

She quickly brought her legs towards her chest and head to protect them as she started to make something out of the vine which once helped her cover her waist.

Before she could use the other vine to slow herself down, however, she crashed onto the branch.

Snap!

The vine snapped in an instant, then her legs snapped too. Broken fragments of bone punctured her muscles and skin, forming huge wounds. Her legs made an unnatural shape, causing her skin to peel off her knees as the impact reached her torso. 

Her pelvis cracked as blood vessels erupted, causing mass internal bleeding and internal ruptures. Her spine twisted unnaturally as she felt the world becoming dark instantly.

If she were conscious for a few more seconds, she would have heard another person getting destroyed by the impact on the same branch.

Before Flieday could be minced by the branch though, a pale hand emerged from the tree and dragged Flieday into it, the tree bark rippled like water as the blond girl disappeared into it. 

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