Intro. The legends talked about a forbidden forest, a place where the shadows breathed and the roses grew with thorns as sharp as dagas. Hanna had heard her all her life, her mother's warnings, the stories whispered by the elders of the town ... but that night, with hunger biting her family's bones, she had no choice but to enter the trees.
The air was dense, each branch seemed to observe it, every crunch under its boots reminded him that he did not belong there. Even so, he tightened the arch and pointed. Among the gloom, a silver fur deer emerged as a spectrum. It was beautiful, almost unreal. But what really shook her was to feel, before releasing the arrow, a fixed look on it ...
threw it. The deer fell. And then the forest fell silent.
A serious voice, so deep that the ground shook, broke in the dark:
- Did you kill what belongs to me?
Among the trees, a young man with dark and penetrating eyes appeared, his silhouette