Lyra stumbled over a root and cursed under her breath. Her boots were caked in dried mud, and a thin cut throbbed on her cheek from some moss-covered spike trap she'd barely dodged earlier.
She had just completed the first two parts of the three parts of the special quest that was to be completed to meet the goddess of moon.
"Gods above," she muttered. "Can these quests not have, like, a checkpoint and some fast travel options?"
The last trial had taken nearly an hour. An endless maze of illusions and whispers from her past, dragging up every insecurity she thought she'd buried. Her knees still felt weak from it.
"How the hell did this game even figure out so many of my insecurities? Is it cause the VR headset is connected to my brain or something."
