Bryan pressed a red button on the wall next to the stairs, and the door leading to the facility opened. There were no words uttered between them; they just let their bodies move accordingly.
The warm sunlight touched their skins as soon as they stepped outside, and Nathaniel thought to himself,
‘Is this how he felt in the past?’
There were no answers, and he didn’t want to know what Bryan felt.
Because Bryan’s grave was in a glade, they could see smoke rising not too far from the forest.
“Are you going?”
Nathaniel asked while looking at Bryan, whose eyes were locked on the rising smoke from afar.
“Yes. I’ll deal with the aftermath when I come to it.”
Nathaniel nodded his head and tracked the path back to the mansion. He’s sure that the others would have felt the explosion, and it
