Description
Dirt clung to the small cuts as they began to bleed. The girl’s face was distorted by the throbbing pain every time she moved her legs, but she ran on, regardless.
“Yeriel Rasch! If you ask Eldoram for forgiveness right away and surrender that blasphemous object, you will not be banished from the village!”
A menacing yell followed closely behind the girl.
The girl gritted her teeth and sped up her legs even faster. She felt like her bronchial tubes were on fire, and her lungs hurt like they were going to explode.
A conspicuous color flashed in the girl’s cloudy eyes as she wandered in the darkness. The girl then lowered herself at once and began digging up the soil with her bare hands. Like a dog digging up the ground, she hastily pulled out the grasses and scraped the dirt and stones off the ground.
“Huff, huff!”
Drops of sweat from the girl fell like rain on the dug-up soil. “Come on, come on…” the girl muttered under her breath, as if berating herself.
The hidden moonlight cast a soft glow on the girl as the wind gently rustled the bushy leaves. The sight of a scrawny young girl frantically digging up dirt was eerie enough that anyone who saw her would have started a ghost story about her.
“Aaaagh!”
“I found her, Elder Rumdrean!” A hand roughly grabbed the girl’s shoulder and yanked her violently backward.
The girl fell onto her back and landed on a stone. Thud! The dull sound echoed painfully, but the girl didn’t even consider rubbing her buttocks before crawling back to all fours and continuing to dig up the ground.
“You have nowhere to run now!”
“Ugh …! Let me go!”
