Chapter 76

Zenovia

I was in dreamland, covered in sheets and wrapped in it like a cocoon, when I heard a noise from the windows.

My body felt stiff and sore as I groaned in my sleep and mentally hoped whoever it was to leave me alone.

“Shoo,” I muttered in my sleep, but the noise was persistent.

It was an odd noise, like somebody was scraping their nails on the windowpanes. My eyelids felt heavy, and I groggily opened them while trying to look around.

I didn’t know Elijah was a prankster, but he was goofy, so he might have found a way to annoy me.

When nobody answered, I pulled the pillows above my head and tried shutting my eyes again.

There was a noise again, coming from the window. The odd scraping noise had returned.

I felt so annoyed that I threw the pillows and finally opened my eyes to throw my fists at someone.

But there was nothing. My room was empty.

I looked around stupidly and muttered, “Elijah, this is a very cruel way to wake someone up from sleep.”

I waited for a minute or two, but Elijah did not reply. Frowning, I gathered the sheets and was about to pull them up over myself again when I saw the window.

It was open, and the curtains were flying through the light breeze.

‘But I had closed the windows before sleeping,’ I thought and kept staring at the window stupidly.

Letting out a sigh, I got up from the bed and went to close the window.

‘Maybe I did not close it tight enough, I thought and shrugged.

But when I reached the window and tried to close it, my gaze fell on the dense trees outside the mansion’s huge gated compound.

was shuffling and I could see the leaves and branches rustle. Compared to that, the rest of the trees looked

head and kept peering at the forest trees and I felt a

a good look at it, I went back to my bed, grabbed

and my gaze automatically flicked

in the office. Not that I could just barge into his office and talk to him

thoughts of him and Cynthia spending all their waking time together get back to me.

would focus on training and keep

windows, but I again felt that sharp pull. I could not explain it but somehow my body wanted to go

was dragging me towards it and though I

down, I could

retired to bed because it was the

patrolling near the mansion. Most of them were around

out and see what lay in the forest and why I

was clear, so I slowly sneaked out of the room and was careful to not make any noise. I climbed down the stairs and

I slowly walked through the perimeter of

grass growing alongside the walls on the outside instead

walk back and

only imagine how much

not locked thankfully and I looked back to check if anybody had noticed me. When I saw that there was nobody, I slowly sneaked outside the gate and stepped through the

prickling on my skin, but when I touched my hand, there was nothing.

looked around, and the forest seemed perfectly ordinary to me.

I muttered and slowly stepped further away from the

forest around me was green and lush. Soft grass crunched beneath my feet as I stepped through it to

trees were large, and the canopy

not get too close to us. Everywhere I looked, the scenery appeared the same to me. I was not sure how to pave my

the moment I thought that, the pull grew stronger as if guiding me to walk through

had been Callahan’s only text that suddenly popped up in my head.

walls were still visible amid the towering

as I could see a glimpse of those walls.

something. I looked down, and I saw that my feet

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