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I shoved the door open and it swung back and forth on it's hinges, making eerie, uncomfortable noises that rang out through the eerie, uncomfortable night. I immediately regretted the action when three pairs of glowing white eyes trained their sites on me and stealthily made their way through the dark. Fear pounded in my chest as I realized that the door behind me had closed, and that the chances of my escape from the mercenaries were slowly dwindling.
His hands reached out to me with all the malice of a bush of thorns, his intent written on his face as clearly as words written in a book.
The elephant lifted its eyes and stared at me, wisdom emanating from its eyes. The way it tilted its head made me wonder if my mind was causing the animals' movements, or if the animals in this place had minds of their own.