“You are?” Akira said.
“Huh? Oh, uh, Ghile.”
“You are closer, Ghile.” She looked from his face to his chest. “I can feel your presence now.” Akira tilted her head and closed her eyes as if listening for something. “You have entered the Deepwood,” she said. Her accent was still difficult to understand, but there was something so intriguing about it.
Ghile wasn't really sure where his physical body was. But if what she said was true, then Gaidel and the others had continued on and left the Ghost Fens.
Ghile remembered his shadow.
He turned. The shadow door was gone, along with any sign of the shadow creature, his shadow self.
Ghile quickly turned back to Akira, for fear she too would disappear. She still stood before him, watching him curiously. She leaned her head to the side to look
