Chapter 197. Echoes from Yonder

The night is hollow, dark, and foreboding. It is the kind of night that seems to hold secrets and shadows at every turn. Claire isn’t home and Lara paces in her living room, her thoughts racing. She has to go to the Dark Forest to see her mother. The dreams has become too vivid, and too real to ignore. Her mother needs her, she can tell by the tug in her guts, and the intense energetic pull in her chest region.

Grace, standing by the window with her arms crossed, looks more worried than Lara herself. For if there is someone in the room who knows the dangers of the forest, it is her. If only Lara will listen to her. The fact that Azura went tither on her own accord means that she does not want to be found, or saved.

“Lara, my dear, even if you manage to reach your mother, the fact remains that you two no longer belong in the same world. It is forbidden for a reason."

Lara passes an intense stare at her aunt, ignoring the conspicuous dread written all over her f