Eyelids twitching, Iyas slowly opened her eyes, greeted not by the familiar natural treehouse roof but by a ceiling pieced together from wooden planks.
Just as Iyas wondered why she was lying there, a slightly immature voice rang out beside her.
"Are you awake?"
Following the voice, she saw a young boy sitting in a chair nearby, holding a book and smiling warmly at her.
With his dark brown hair, black pupils, and semi-circular ears, he was clearly a human boy.
"My name is Yang Yu, don't be scared, no one can hurt you now. In short, I saved you."
Saved me?
A flood of memories rushed into Iyas's mind, images flashing before her eyes.
"Was all that, not a dream?"
Iyas wished everything she had seen was just a dream, but the ache in her body told her it was reality.
"Hake, where's Hake?"
