C31 THE HIDDEN DARKNESS

The world was quiet again.

It's too quiet.

Elara's eyes blinked wide, and she couldn't breathe.

She was not in the forest anymore.

The air smelled like roses and ashes, which was both sweet and bitter. The ground underneath her sparkled like glass, showing heavens that went on forever and bled red at the borders. Everything around her sparkled in a dreamlike way, yet it was incorrect.

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