The next scene has turned into midnight, and now the garden is shrouded in deep shadows beneath a silvered sky. Mevissa stepped into the stillness, wearing only a thin chiffon dress, her bare feet whispering against the grass.
She walked toward a great tree, passing Lory and Lucas without a glance, her presence gliding past them like a ghost.
She stopped before the largest tree in the garden, perhaps the oldest. at the same time, Lory realized the giant tree stood in the same vast gap she had seen previously with Lucas and Zhao Li Xin.
No wonder the space had seemed so immense. The tree was colossal, its trunk broad and ancient, its sweeping branches arching high to form a great canopy. Emerald leaves crowned its boughs, shimmering faintly in the dark.
