Aesa was confused. What she saw in front of her was so strange. She could not immediately understand what the Trial wanted from her.
She was seeing Erend, Eccar, and Sylven appear several times across the frozen landscape. They would just stand there in the distance without saying anything. They just smiled at her as though they knew something she did not know.
Their expressions carried a strange amusement that made the entire scene feel more unsettling and annoying than threatening.
Every time Aesa approached them, however, they disappeared.
Their bodies dissolved like snow carried away by the wind until nothing remained of them.
Then, after some time, they would appear somewhere else across the frozen landscape and repeat the same thing. They never spoke, never attacked her.
They simply stood there and smiled before disappearing again whenever she drew close.
It happened so many times that Aesa began to wonder what she was actually supposed to do.
