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Violent Frightening Disaster - Four

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Interlude : Verde Foresta e Disperazione
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A forest. Seven years after the schism.
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The main problem with promises is that, if you sincerely make them, you can't help but feel bad when you break them.
Not doing what you say is not always good, but it's alright when compared to the act of breaking a promise.
I have had a life full of intrigues and perils, and most of the time both of them at the same time. This had left me facing plenty of situations in which promises were broken. Either by me, by an infamous unibrowed character, or by lots of altogether different people, some of them I would never  be able to see again.
And, reflecting upon it all inside a shed located at the top of a tree at the foot of which two lions were waiting for their prey to make a move, I realized that promises could very well be linked to all of the biggest problems I had experienced in my past.

I silently promised myself not to make any promise anymore, then thought about what I had just done and guessed (and it turned out later that I had guessed accurately) that my problems would not be over soon.
At that moment, I heard a noise sounding like branches collapsing under the weight of a building.
As I passed my head through the window, I saw that the noise had been produced by branches collapsing under the weight of a shed.
Then, the shed collapsed, and myself with it.

Ten minutes later, I was finding shelter into an abandoned cabin, quickly unfolding a piece of paper * as I heard claws trying to tear the door apart.
On the unfolded piece of paper were written those words :

"Be careful. Stay discreet.
We promise that we will get you out of that situation soon."

I read the last sentence twice, sighed, then folded the piece of paper, put it in my pocket, got hold of the harpoon leaning against the wooden wall and opened the door.

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* Which I had found, as expected, hidden behind a plank inside the cabin.
The fourth part of my "A series of unfortunate events" fan fiction about VFD.
It involves promises and lions, which are both very dangerous.
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