Side Quest [3]

"You're already too late"

The words rang out in her mind continuously, disallowing her to think of anything else. Too late? Too late for what?

The words made Ruyue painfully aware that she had screwed up at some point, but she couldn't figure out when exactly that was.

'What is happening to me?'

Ever since she arrived in this forest, she had felt like she wasn't being herself. Still, she went along with it because she enjoyed the way it made her feel.

Free and unfettered. 

But she realized she was wrong.

'I have to get to the village.'

It was the only solution she could think of. That was the place she had chosen to protect in the first place, so if there was any place to be while trying to figure out what kind of trap she had fallen for, it was there.