“The screaming wood” Guillem Graell i Graell / 4t d’ESO LLENGUA ANGLESA_1R PREMI The scream from the forest was what awoke Nero. He had been travelling by carriage for the last 15 hours from London. Yes, a long travel, however there was no faster way of travelling in the year 1666 but it was worth the trip to the small village of Thanatos and Nero knew it. Nero looked around the forest trying to see where the scream came out but he saw nothing. Nevertheless Nero was too excited and impatient to get to the village of Thanatos. “You idiot don’t stop now, keep going” he said to the coachman, and the carriage began moving again until it reached Thanatos. “Good evening Lord Nero” said a villager making an exaggerated bow when he saw Nero “We’re pleased to see you here however that is a waste of time the project advances as plan”. “No it doesn’t” answered Nero “the vanishing of villagers in this last days suggest another thing. I’ll stay to supervise the end of the project and you’ve cleared all the forest, alright?” “Yes my Lord, you can go to the castle of Lord Tiberius inside the forest, here we don’t have a place for you”. So Nero travelled some more time until he reached the castle of Tiberius. Nero was waiting for an effusive arrival. However, no one went to see him. “This idiot of Tiberius believes to be above me” said Nero for himself “but he’s not, we share this project equally, he’ll see now”. He jumped of the carriage and went to the door of the castle while he said “Tiberius opened this damn door now!” But when he reached the door he saw it was ajar. He opened the door and entered the castle, it was dark and quiet, and there didn’t seem to be anyone there. Nevertheless Nero couldn’t believe that, Tiberius had to be there, the two had a common dream, a common goal. He couldn’t have left without warning so Nero started exploring the entire castle, room by room, but all of them were dark, quiet and with no one there. He had few rooms left to explore when Nero suddenly heard a scream which seemed to emerge from the forest. He ran to a room to see what was going on outside and from there he saw a big shadow among the trees of the forest, only a second and
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