Volume 25 Chapter 5 Part1 (2/2)

”I don't know”

Should she keep going forwards, or turn back?

No matter which way she chose, the mist surrounded her on all four sides, so there was no way she could be sure that what she thought was foras in front of her, and that as behind her was the way she had come

”What do I do?”

While she was still perplexed

She could hear the sound of so from somewhere

It was faint, but she could definitely hear it There was no oal and ran in the direction of the sound

Not even her own voice reached her ears But despite all that The voice grew steadily clearer, and then louder

As though it were calling out to her Like the shi+ning bea her way at sea

At long last she found it

Lying down on the fallen leaves, wrapped in pure white swaddling clothes, a tiny life-force

”Ahh”

With tre hands she clasped it to her breast

She'd finally found it They'd never be separated again

”My … baby”

As she hugged it tight, the resistance disappeared

The pure white swaddling clothes unraveled and what she had thought was her baby fell froround

”Ah, ah”

She frantically gathered the dry leaves that covered her knees and feet

But they would no longer return to their original form

”Noooo - ”

Her grief-stricken cry cut through the mist