Chapter 44 THE BALLERINA’S GHOST III Black smoke engulfed my numb body and clouded my vision. The location of my unmoving body was hard to tell, but I knew that I was lying. I tried to move a single muscle to escape from this, but I failed. The only thing that was properly functioning right now was my mind because even my sense of hearing seemed not to cooperate with me. A deafening silence, that was what it is. I tried again when suddenly, the scene changed. I was running fast straight towards somewhere unknown. I ran and ran as if my body earlier was functioning accordingly. Run—that's the only word I was thinking now. I felt no exhaustion as I distanced myself far away from someone. My curiosity wanted to find out what was I running from or who I was trying to escape, so I looked behi

