J.T. Chugg

“From all the stories Aiden Dawson had read, the tone and setting were always grim when the hero faced their darkest moment, when the villain would hedge up the way and threaten to destroy them, and when all hope seemed lost. But there was no rain, no darkened clouds gathering overhead. Nothing. But then again, why should there be? At the end of the day, Aiden never saw himself as a hero.
This wasn’t even his fight. If he’d kept his mouth shut and passed by, he wouldn’t be where he was now—with grass-stained pants and a bloodied lip. And for what? There would never be a hero’s moment, no triumph against a villain and their dastardly plans, and there definitely was no hope of saving another in distress.
There was never any of that in the real world.”
― J.T. Chugg, The Song of the Forest