The Rotting Truth

Kaelia

I pressed my hand to my mouth to silence the shriek that would have left my mouth. She looked like a rotting, melting corpse.

No doubt, she smelled funny. Was that the reason she would never reveal her face or come closer to me?

I subconsciously took a step back as she mumbled, “I paid the price for the war, too. I lost men, I lost my sweet child and then I was confined to this forest, to t