After Aeliana urged her, Helia sighed before she took a moment to collect her thoughts and arrange her words.
"I caught the curse from a Wood Spirit," she uttered a few moments later.
"From a Wood Spirit?" Aeliana's eyes narrowed before she said, "Elemental Spirits rarely interact with humans and remain isolated in their own world. Even if we encounter them, they are generally timid and try to avoid us, not aggressive or hostile by nature."
"What exactly did you to do to get spored by one?" Aeliana asked with a sharp look.
After a moment of silence, Helia replied with evasive eyes, "Herbal experimentations."
"Herbal experimentations?" Aeliana frowned.
"That's right," Helia affirmed with a nod before she continued, "Half a century ago, I managed to encounter the Wood Spirit in the Sunset Forest and lured it into following me back to Redpine City—"
