Two days passed.
For the first time since arriving in this place, the instructor's small group finally found something resembling peace, tucked inside the strange clearing at the heart of an even stranger forest, at the center of a city that had no business existing at all.
For the first time since getting here, they had a chance to let their nerves settle. Though that didn't apply equally to everyone.
The instructor, skeptical as ever, hadn't fully set aside his doubts about the man.
Although Adrian appeared harmless on the surface, he knew better than to judge someone by appearances.
In situations like these, it was always safer to assume the worst than to blindly hope everything would turn out fine.
The two students, on the other hand, were adapting.
