54 Despair

They laughed happily at Ivy's answer. But what she had not said was that she too had already visited and explored a place just as bewitching and dangerous, a fantastic name populated by various creatures as monstrous as they were powerful, and which had led her to border on death. Even now, with her incurable disease... But as she said, if she had to do it all over again, she would not have changed anything, besides, her love for creatures would have already condemned her to undertake this adventure as tragic as unforgettable and moreover where she had seen with her own eyes and lived with her soul what, or rather, who life had of more beautiful for her. And in the end, that was all that mattered.