When the butler's steps faded away, the room plunged into a chilly silence and complete darkness.
"Which way should we go now, princess?"
‘You'll have to walk at least a hundred feet to reach the entrance leading to the palace library.’ Belona said ‘You should head to your left.’
It was so dark that I didn't even know where Emeric was at that moment and where to direct him. I was also embarrassed to confess that I couldn't see anything, that I was without my wolf, and that it was her, Belona, whom we were about to free.
But I had no other choice.
“Emeric, I'm sorry, I... I can't see anything. I'm completely in the dark.”
The silence that followed my words was palpable.
“Can't you see anything, Ivania? Have you injured your head in the fall, princess?”
I felt Emeric's body next to m
