As Max busied himself with helping Talia retain her sanity, the others busied themselves with figuring out other methods to escape from their current predicament.
Tension was high and morale… low.
The feeling of hopelessness slowly crept on them, turning their fears into reality.
At a certain point, Elena began to hear a certain voice in the distance. It beckoned to her, asking her to free it from its bindings.
This wasn't the first time she heard it. After she had broken through a circle, the voice had been communicating with her steadily, tempting her to adhere to it's request.
At first, she had pushed it away as a trick of the Red World but after it mentioned her deepest desire… her curiosity awakened.
It felt like dealing with a devil, but it gave her a chance to escape from this hellhole and even better, a chance to revive her mother.
Elena glanced in the direction of the voice.
Unknowingly, her deepest desires were turning into a means to drag her down into depravity.
