GAYA’S GARDEN
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Belladonna was stunned by Alaris' statement but it did make sense that the map was lying to them. Maybe it wasn't completely lying to them but everything they approached using the guidance of the map always had something else in it that the map didn't tell them about, something dangerous that they should have been warned about. Like the river by the Tree of life that contained sirens, and this.
Mostly especially this!
The map was obviously playing tricks on them.
If that wasn't obvious before, then this Garden of Gem had proved it to be true.
There were no gems here, only corpses of those who had done what they were doing, and had ran out of time while they searched the Garden for something it didn't have.
They had probably not seen the bodies that laced the ground and provided nutrients for the soil.
Why were they seeing it?
