"Are you sure this is the way out? I am quite certain that I have seen this place quite a few times now… It's as if we are circling around the same place over and over…"
Hearing Lia's words of concern, Selain sighed and said,
"Okay, I will come clean then… We are lost; we are stuck in this 'Forest of Illusions' and it seems that if we try to go out, we somehow end up where we started…"
Selain glanced at the compass in her hand and sighed.
The compass was clearly working just fine, but the problem is that when she tries to go in the direction where the nearest city should be located, they both end up reaching the same place they started at.
"The odd thing is that if you try to leave, then the illusion activates, but if you try to go deeper in the forest, then it's normal as if the illusion doesn't even exist…"
"No matter how you look at it, this place is quite bizzare…"