Chapter 143 (stranger)

The figure standing in front of Aria felt so surreal that she thought she was going to lose her mind. The Bear was huge and from the little light that the moon gave out, she could tell that it was black. Never in her life has she ever seen a Bear before and now that she was seeing one, it felt as though she was going imagining things. Fortunately for her, her stomach ache had stopped and so was the bleeding but this time, it was fear that gripped her.

She began to think of what her next line of action would be; whether she was to sit there and just watch the Bear go away or she should stand up and run or fight, depending on what her guts leads her to do at that moment.

The Bear on the other hand was observing her initially as it stood there and glared at her in the dark but then it seemed to have gotten bored with the whole glaring thing and decided to attack. As it brought its claws up to slash her with it, someone pulled the Bear backwards away from her.