Echo
You look carefully at the shadow.
Yes, it's slowly moving, and disappearing behind the wall. It looks as if it was trying to hide before you see it. Well! Is too late! You have already seen it and now you are curious, because it looks to be away from the wall, and yet, behind it.
You approach it and, oh surprise! Both things are true. There is not a wall, but two, forming a secret entry, which you follow without thinking anymore about the shadow. It tries to stop you but, how could it? It cannot touch you.
You don't even notice the gestures of warning it makes as you leave it behind.
"Hello?" You ask to the nothing in the long secret path. The walls return your voice in choir.
You turn the corner without noticing that it wasn't a corner but a junction where a second path was hidden just like the main one. You keep making the same mistake, and when you finally notice it, you are lost, deep in a labyrinth.
No matter how loud you cry for help, the only answer is the echo of your own voice.
The End.
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