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his father and Aaron looked out the window to keep a watch. They heard many howls at a distance. It felt like the creatures were calling out to each other.
    “Close all the windows quickly and put out all the lights” Flynn said to the workers. “The dead beast is outside, the others might come looking for it” he added.
    They sat in the dark making no sound at all. They could now hear many screams outside. The villagers were running away and they could hear many growls. After a while, the screams and the growls died down. But they sat inside and waited. After a long time, Aaron carefully opened a window and looked outside.
    “They are gone” he said.
    Flynn also came to check, he peeped out of the window.  Zack was still unconscious and lying on the floor.
    Flynn and Aaron came out slowly while the men attended to Zack. A few people were gathered in front of a shop. Some was cursing the Devil and some were calling names of Gods.
    The Wolves were gone but they had caused a lot of damage. Most of the shops were rundown or broken. But thankfully, not many villagers were hurt. Aaron wondered why these monsters came to the village.
    “What were those things? Why did they come here? Billy was right then.” Flynn said, as he looked around.
    They heard some yelling, a small group of people were gathered at a distance. Aaron and Flynn rushed towards them. One of the shop keepers was telling everybody that the wolves had talked to him. He looked terrified.
    “They asked for the boy. I didn’t know that they meant.” The shopkeeper looked scared, he was sweating. “ I couldn’t say anything. Then they broke my shop.” He stared to sob and the others consoled him.
    Aaron was not comfortable. He wanted to get away from the crowd.
    “I will check for other casualties. You look after your father.” Aaron told Flynn.
    Aaron ran towards the shops in the outer circle of the market place. Most of these shops were empty and untouched. These shopkeepers had left long back.
    He walked through the row of shops searching if anybody was still inside or trapped. He spotted a small light in the corner. He realized that it was coming from the book store.
    Without thinking much, he ran towards the book shop. He heard a faint voice coming from within the shop. He rushed inside and saw the lady of the shop lying in a pool of blood.  Aaron knelt near her and tried to keep her awake.
    “Can you hear me? I am here to help. I will take you to the village. You will be fine” Aaron said in one breath.
    The lady opened her eyes slowly and held Aaron’s hand.
    “They will come again! You should not be here” she whispered.
    “Are you talking about the wolves? What do you know about them?” Aaron asked.
    “They were sent by the Dark One, they are turned evil by the magic, very dark magic. They were looking for you” she said.
    “Me?!” Aaron jumped back a little. “What? But Why?” Aaron felt a knot forming in his stomach.
    “Why are they looking for me?!” Aaron asked again, holding her hands tight.
    “There was a searcher here, he was looking for you. It came after you had left. He looked inside my head and knew that you were here.”
    She took a deep breath. She had lost a lot of blood. With a trembling voice, she said “I tried to stop the searcher but he was very powerful, I couldn’t, I couldn’t….” she was not able to speak anymore. Aaron could see the pain in her eyes now.
    Aaron had no idea what the lady was talking about.  As he sat there, she was taking her last few breaths.
    “What is a searcher? And who is the Dark One?” He asked.
    But no sound came from the lady anymore. She did not move or speak again. She was dead. Aaron dropped her hand to her sides and slowly got up. He walked out of the shop and looked back for the last time. To his surprise the whole shop vanished in front of his eyes like there was nothing there before. Aaron rubbed his eyes in surprise, ‘ How was that possible?’ he