“Someday, the stars will align and make a path leading us to somewhere far far away without no way back.” CHAPTER XXXVIII: The First Entity in the Other Side of the Country; An Unlikely Betrayal    A COLD DEAD wind swept past the three of us, making the two wake up of their senses. The trees, the thirsty river, the water deer, the uneasy horses were here in the heart of the forest with us, almost confused.    I thought it would take a longer time but good news it did not. We hopped a few steps back from the deer, our senses alert again. My hands began to shake a little more aggressively now as my head pounded. There could be no way it talked. I saw the other two get their own defense, as if they had been awakened from a hypnotic spell.

“There was sweetness in the air and an eerie warmth in the heart, scraped knees and a few tree stumps. A night deprived of glimmer could be a night worth a single star.” CHAPTER XL: A Reminisce of Home; The Glow Behind the Trees    “SO FROM THE East, you think we are already almost at the very center of the country?” The map of emptiness was laid out over the ground, the fire was giving it enough glow to be read even though there was not really any content written in it.     Houlio Merto nodded at my question, then drew a not so straight line — more like a path which we seemed to have followed from the witch’s tree house. He drew on the map using the cool ember of a stick. Last Updated : 2021-11-05