Chapter 229. Meeting of Souls

Mary woke up. The scent she had been smelling since she arrived was stronger. She got up and step by step, fearing that someone would see her, she changed, went downstairs and went to the front door. Indifferent to the danger outside, she forced the door and stepped out.

The landscape in front of her brought tears to her eyes. The air was gray, like smoke rising from the ground. And among the smoke, many shapes resembling dead people in various positions. She believed that they were the servants who had risked leaving the protection of the palace and that the singates had dragged them there to cause panic among the people in the palace. However, she wasn't afraid of them or their tricks. She left and walked aimlessly, as she couldn't see straight. The next thing she knew, she was in what had once been a garden, full of dead plants and statues of her father's concubines and the first Farida.

He heard a neigh and turned to look. Lo and behold, a huge black