Moon felt some of the tension leave his own body as he could tell Selene had chosen to believe him.
"Good. Because we need to work together if we're going to figure out what this place is doing to us."
"Agreed." Selene turned to look around them, her expression hardening with focus. "So if it's not an illusion, what is it?"
Moon stared into the oppressive darkness between the twisted pines, his mind churning through possibilities and discarding them just as quickly. Spatial manipulation. Perceptual distortion. Memory alteration. None of the theories fit, and without more data, he was just guessing.
And guessing had never sat well with him.
But there was something else bothering him now. Something that had been nagging at the back of his mind since they'd started their investigation of the mysterious forest.
They'd been walking for over an hour. Testing. Observing. Moving deeper into the forest's territory.
And they hadn't encountered a single beast.
Not one.
