"And from inside it… he came."
Elisira's words hung in the air, heavy and slow, as if even she didn't dare to continue her sentence. A few seconds of silence stretched between them, a silence that was neither empty nor calm, but full of something that had not yet been said.
The princess's face was overtaken by fear. Just talking about that monster, just thinking about the things she had read or heard about it, made her body tremble.
Daniel, without taking his gaze off Elisira's face, waited. There was no hurry in his posture, no pressure to hear the rest. But this unpressured silence forced Elisira to continue.
She took a deep breath. As if she was pulling something from a distant place, from the depth of a memory she didn't want to touch again.
"His body… looked like a human." She paused. Her eyebrows furrowed slightly, as if searching for the right word.
