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Chapter 250 - Next Stop, Ardent Hollow

Silence.

The sort that lingers after hearing something you wish you hadn't.

I can't really blame them for being so quiet about this whole situation. It is kind of crazy to hear something like that after all.

Alice lowers her sword slightly while staring at Orun.

"They... are everyone who believed they could leave Xaer," Orun answers.

The words refuse to leave my mind.

Everyone. They aren't some random monsters or something evil that wants to just kill us.

They are just people who tried to leave a place that they were never meant to leave. I can only imagine how their deaths were...

Probably brutal.

My eyes drift toward the massive wooden doors behind us.

Regardless of what they once were or what they are currently... They are still waiting outside for us at the moment.

I let out a slow breath before looking around the hall for the first time.

The inside of the building is nothing like I expected.

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