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The forest glistened under the bright light of the full moon.
The grand moon under the deep night had once again beckoned Noctis out of his bed and under the shadow of the forest with a feeling he didn't have any way of describing.
It felt like a gloom of mourning at some times and the march of unabashed freedom at others.
He still didn't have any control over it whatsoever, but repeated exposure had made him realize a few things about it.
One that had a property of revealing things hidden from normal perception, even qi perception.
While wandering around the forest for hours, he would occasionally come across strange breaks in the forest.
Like fissures dividing the areas of the forest or some gateway to another forbidden place.
He couldn't stare at the strange spaces for too long; for one, it made his head hurt like hell, reminding him of the 'consequences of overusing traits' that Cora had once told him about.
