That fact hammered in her mind with every heartbeat, every near-miss, every moment where a burning tree came within meters of her body.
Her heart pounded like a war drum. Fear of death clawed at her thoughts despite her best efforts to suppress it.
She'd been foolish. Completely, utterly foolish to enter this place without enough lives. Without the safety net that separated experienced awakeners from corpses.
'I should have turned back as soon as we entered,' she cursed herself internally, her eyes tracking the immense number of trees pressing in around them.
'Idiot! I'm such an idiot!'
Her gaze flickered to Moon, who kept pushing forward relentlessly, casting spells with no rest, his face set in concentration. His power had made her confident, too confident.
He'd killed three apex predators of Lunaris Island, and that success had made her complacent about her own limitations.
But this was different.
