“Thank you, thank you. I just… I’m not normally like this. I just got lost, I don’t even know how.” Imogen also looked up at the hedges, then went up to them to feel the leaves and brush of the maze. It grounded her, and when she turned back to the panicking girl, she realized she was still walking around the maze—further. Rambling. Imogen followed her those couple steps, “I just walked in here like normal and all of a sudden I couldn’t find my way out. I thought I was retracing my steps, I thought-”
Imogen was starting to feel anxious herself, the girl’s energy radiating in waves. “Hey, hey, girly, let’s take a moment, okay? Why don’t we… sit?,” the woman was crouching, and Imogen followed suit, watching her. “You…okay?” Imogen said, brows creasing in worry. Oh, please please please don’t be having a panic attack. I am not equipped for this. But her eyes snapped open, like she was freshly out of a fog. “I’m sorry, I don’t know what just happened… I’m not normally this…claustrophobic.”
Imogen nodded, feeling the same sensation creeping in. There was something about the maze. It wasn’t just the walls made of hedge; it was the way they seemed to shift and sway like the branches in a wind.
“Let’s focus on getting out, okay? We just need to—” Imogen began, but then she noticed something strange. A thin line appeared at the base of the hedge beside them, flickering like a shadow caught in the light. She had only noticed it now that they were crouched. Subtly, the hedge shifted, almost like a breath releasing, so little it wouldn’t have been noticeable if you were just watching the green. “Whoa!” Imogen fell onto knees, crawling over, her heart racing. “Did you see that?”
“The hedges… they—” she braised her hands along the wall, giving it a hard shove. Nothing. “—moved. I swear it just moved!” Imogen exclaimed, her gaze darting between the shifting walls of green that surrounded them. She pointed down, then decided to just dig around the grass until it revealed the thin outline of a track around the walls. She looked up at the woman, “no wonder….”
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