Chapter 040
Emilia's POV
I awoke with a start, my heart pounding in my chest as I gasped for breath. My breath seemed to have been held captive by the dense air. Although a chill gripped my skin, I wasn't shivering because of the chilly night. No, the dream was the cause. The strange, dreadful dream appeared uncanny and unreal.
The horror of my choices and the weight of my thoughts had pulled me into slumber beneath the forest's blackened trees. However, it wasn't peaceful. My dreams encircled me like fingers, drawing me further into a sinister realm from which I was unable to break.
I was no longer in the forest when I opened my eyes in the dream. I was in a field. It was a silver one that seemed to go on forever. It was wrong, even though the grass felt lovely underfoot. So incorrect
