Thorn
You follow the sound for a while. The more you walk, the louder the voice is. Your need to find the source increases too. You know you are going in the right direction when you notice that you can distinguish the words, even if you don't understand the language.
Then you feel as if someone has grabbed you by the shoulder. You panic for a second, even as you try to convince yourself that it doesn't have to mean you are in danger. It turns out you aren't in danger, and no one is grabbing you. Your shirt is stuck in a branch.
You free yourself and go on. Only for it to happen again with your pants. As you reach down to do something about it, your shirt is trapped too. Getting rid of it requires to approache another of those thorny branches. Soon you are forced to pull so hard that your halloween costume tears, and you fall into something that pinches you and the whole process starts again, but this time with less light, because your smartphone fell away of your reach. The flashlight is still working, but that doesn't help you.
The more you fight, the more entangled you get. You are trapped in... whatever this is.
When your smartphone decides to turn off the flashlight because the battery is dying, you start screaming for help. Nobody comes, but soon enough the first light of the day allows you too see the bushes that caught you, and now it doesn't seem so difficult to escape them and recover your phone.
In front of you, there is a clear. When you go to inspect it, this time avoiding the thorny bushes, you discover that this is where the path ended.
Great. Now you have to pass through the bushes again.
The End
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