Chlonette - Forest
Don’t go into the forest, her nanny used to tell her at night. The forest is where they hide.
Who? she’d ask, trembling under her sheets, knowing that sleep would evade her for hours. She’d spend the next few hours afraid of the whistling wind instead, trying to screw her eyes shut to avoid her fears. Who hides there?
Them, is all her nanny would say before walking out, but it was enough to deter Chloe from ever stepping foot into the woods.
Well, for a while anyway. But when she’s running from her arranged marriage to some frumpy old dude to strengthen some boring ass alliance? Yeah, Chloe’s got no choice but to run into the forest, so she throws a quick prayer up to the heavens to keep her safe, grabs her skirts in her hand, and books the hell out of there.
The “them,” she discovers, is actually the Guardian of the Forest, a wonderful woman who calls herself “Marinette” and gives Chloe food and shelter with only companionship as payment.
And Chloe wonders, briefly, if maybe her fear was manufactured to keep her trapped.
So it’s only logical that she begins to associate Marinette with freedom, and the moment she truly started living.
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