Knowing she was all alone, Stella's eyes narrowed. She didn't dare make any mistake at that moment. Over the months, she had learnt one crucial lesson.
Never act on impulse.
Stella slowly spun around several times, carefully trying to decipher where she was while searching for any possible path that might lead her out.
However, no matter how many times she turned or how closely she observed her surroundings, she remained trapped inside the strange forest with no visible exit in sight.
She drew in a slow, steady breath, but the very next moment, her eyes widened as realization suddenly dawned on her.
"An illusion..."
The path she had taken was an illusion, and there was a very high chance that everything she was seeing now was nothing more than part of the same elaborate deception.
During the past several weeks, Stella had spent nearly all of her free time reading every mystical book Adrian could obtain for her.
