Chapter 217

• The cool night air was gone, replaced by the warm breeze of spring carrying hints of blooming flowers
• and something sweetly elusive. The stars that once dotted the sky had vanished, replaced by a brilliant sun and two faint moons. Sunlight filtered into the clearing where I stood, casting a soft glow through trees that seemed far larger here than in my own world. These trees wore a lush canopy of leaves in vibrant emerald hues, with shapes and textures that were both foreign and mesmerizing, like the colors themselves had been dialed up and saturated. This place, so vividly alive,
• seemed touched by magic.