As they walked, he decided to probe a bit further.
"This garden... it's unusual. It feels like part of the tower, but there's something off. Why do I sense it's much larger than it should be? Don't tell me we've been teleported to another island altogether?"
The woman glanced back at him, her serene smile never leaving her face.
Her smile took on a hint of mystery. "This is still inside the tower. And if you want to learn the secret of how we pulled it off, you'll need to become one of us first."
Asher nodded, already half-expecting not to get a direct answer. Still, her response gave him enough to form his own hypothesis.
First, they were using some kind of space-altering spell to distort its dimensions, making it far larger than it could physically speaking.
Either that, or everything—the sky, the horizon—was merely an elaborate optical illusion. If he tried to fly beyond the visible boundaries, he might just hit a dead end.
