She knew she wasn't meant to be out this late, nor was she supposed to be this near the Forbidden Forest alone, but Lily had been far too restless to stay on course that night.
Lily enjoyed getting to wander the castle after the corridors were dark and everyone had gone to bed, but that night the pull of crisp moonlight was just a little too much, and instead of recoiling from it, the nipping chill in the air outside only served to draw her out a little further, step by step into a situation she had no business being in.
The idea that nobody got to see the forest like this played over her thoughts, casting her actions in an adventurous light, urging past the line of trees and into dense woods teeming with hidden life.
When the sound of the howl broke through the chirp of insects, Lily's stomach dropped into her shoes, and without thinking she broke into a run, heading in the opposite direction that the noise had come from, her heart hammering frantically in her chest as she struggled to determine the way she'd come from and how best to get back.
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She knew she wasn't meant to be out this late, nor was she supposed to be this near the Forbidden Forest alone, but Lily had been far too restless to stay on course that night.
Lily enjoyed getting to wander the castle after the corridors were dark and everyone had gone to bed, but that night the pull of crisp moonlight was just a little too much, and instead of recoiling from it, the nipping chill in the air outside only served to draw her out a little further, step by step into a situation she had no business being in.
The idea that nobody got to see the forest like this played over her thoughts, casting her actions in an adventurous light, urging past the line of trees and into dense woods teeming with hidden life.
When the sound of the howl broke through the chirp of insects, Lily's stomach dropped into her shoes, and without thinking she broke into a run, heading in the opposite direction that the noise had come from, her heart hammering frantically in her chest as she struggled to determine the way she'd come from and how best to get back.