70 The Old Driver's Past

Finding herself back in the strange realm where she saw projections of the different beasts she could hunt, Alice felt a chill run down her spine. She immediately turned around and saw the eye staring back at her.

Sensing it judging her, Alice wanted to leave. However, she was unable to. Her body was rooted in place and her mind was imprisoned within this realm, a helpless subject to the whims of the eye.

Unable to utter a word, she could only stand still as the eye slowly scanned her up and down.

[Weak… Strange… Abnormal?... Impossibility…]

A voice rang out in her mind. It was the sound of a woman speaking to her.

[No one should be able to drink deep of the Abyss's strength and come out unscathed…]

[But you? How does the Abyss have no hold over you? Why?]

[Strange… Very strange…]

Squinting towards Alice as though trying to see something within her, the eye closed itself before opening once more.