Selma Payne's POV:
"Please don't say that. You're a kind friend, and you don't have to be so formal with your friends." Chena City's mayor shook his head. "I shouldn't have asked too much about your private affairs. However, if you're willing, Chena City is more than willing to become a place for you to evacuate."
"It's nothing. I just..."
I stopped halfway through my sentence. Was it just that my arrogant self-confidence was destroyed by reality? Was it just that the dead spirits under the city walls cried day and night in my dreams? It was just that I regretted coming to the Elf Forest, and I'd returned to being that little girl who escaped from the world.
There were thousands of words on the tip of my tongue, but I could only sigh helplessly in the end.
