Chapter Thirty.
I followed the winding path alone, my eyes hardly registering the world around me that was flourishing with life, the budding of new flowers when I passed, the grass that grew in the wake of my footsteps, the revival of withering leaves in my presence. Despite how it may have seemed, I wasn’t the one causing these small, magical anomalies, instead it was Gaea following me with the use of her sight, her power strong and radiating throughout her domain, observing me from afar. Perhaps if I hadn’t been so consumed in my own thoughts then maybe I would’ve noticed these slight changes, these occurrences and avoided the image of vulnerability that I had portrayed when my feet paused, having slowed until they stopped completely. I was about to enter the Garden of Eden, about to face a menacing cr
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