The Wendigo's Girl

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…The words settled into her like shards of ice. She had come seeking answers, seeking understanding, and she had found a truth more terrifying and complex than she could have ever conceived. The tentative hope that had bloomed in the firelight had withered, replaced by a chilling realization: her journey into the forest had not only led her to the Wendigo, but it had also irrevocably bound her to its fate. The glimmer of hope had been just that – a glimmer, fleeting and fragile, easily extinguished by the encroaching shadows. The true battle, she understood with a sickening certainty, had only just begun.