Silver-haired wizard: “Otherwise, I can just act directly and freeze the mermaid while she’s not noticing.”
Miu Miu, who was dressed in a complicated and beautiful dress, ran like a butterfly showing off its beauty. She waved at Bai Lixin and ran towards a room further inside.
The silver-haired wizard followed behind and whispered these words in Bai Lixin’s ear with a voice only the two of them could hear.
Bai Lixin smiled imperceptibly at Miu Miu who looked back at him, and replied softly, “It won’t work.”
“Miu Miu has already used a lot of mental energy from before until now, and she is now very weak. If we kill the mermaid now, she will definitely go berserk, and this world is likely to collapse.”
The silver-haired wizard frowned and looked at the little girl with a gloomy face, then looked behind at Miss Xihai, who was poised to win. He took a deep breath and then exhaled heavily.
It was frustrating.
“What should we do? This won’t work, and that won’t work either.”
Bai Lixin said, “The one who tied the bell must untie it. We can’t use force this time.”
The two followed Miu Miu to the study. Bai Lixin had seen this room in Miu Miu’s memory before, but now it was more fulfilling than that cold memory.
Many photos were hanging on the wall and a very exquisite album was on the table.
The people in the photos were either one individual or a pair, and the characters were always Miu Miu and Miss Xihai.
Catching butterflies in the garden, camping on the grass, fishing by the river, making mud sculptures and sandcastles, and painting.
This was a hint reinforcement.
Miss Xihai constantly reinforced the fact that she was Miu Miu’s mother through the photos, ensuring that Miu Miu would not have any errors in her memory.
Noticing that Bai Lixin was looking at the photos on the wall, Miu Miu reached out her small hand and tugged at Bai Lixin’s sleeve, “Brother.”
Bai Lixin looked down and met Miu Miu’s pair of emerald eyes.
“Brother, come and see the picture I drew.”
Bai Lixin’s gaze followed Miu Miu as the little girl skillfully sat on the desk and took out a large drawing book from the drawer. She carefully flipped to the last page and stuffed the crayon drawing she had just shown Miss Xi Hai into it.
The colorful drawings dotted the entire paper, and only a child with a simple mind could draw such a special artwork.
“Did you draw this just now?” Bai Lixin pointed to the sunflower hanging in the sky. “What is this?”
Miu Miu said, “It’s a sunflower, and it’s also the sun.”
Miu Miu pulled out a yellow crayon from the crayon box at the corner of the table and added a few more strokes. “I really like sunflowers. I think sunflowers are the sun.”
Bai Lixin looked at the crayon in Miu Miu’s hand and then at the sunflower under her pen, and asked a very casual question, “Do you like drawing?”
Miu Miu said, “Yes, I like drawing.”
“Look here.” Miu Miu flipped a few pages forward and found a painting filled with sunflowers. In the center of the painting stood a little girl wearing a big sunhat. The girl had golden curly hair and emerald green eyes. Although the face didn’t look like hers, Bai Lixin could tell that the painting was of Miu Miu.
“I had never been to this place,” Miu Miu said wistfully, as she touched the edge of the paper. “I’d only seen photos of this painting. This place actually exists in a city far away from here, and I managed to go there when I finished this painting.”
Bai Lixin slowly flipped through the paintings that Miu Miu had painted. All of them were landscape paintings with bright colors and none had a person in them.
Under Miu Miu’s brush, there seemed to be no dark clouds, no thunderstorms. Even when it rained, it was a gentle spring rain.
The sun was always shining brightly, the flowers were always in full bloom, the birds were always soaring high, and the grass was always lush and verdant.
Under her brush, everything was always full of vitality.
As she had just said, “Wherever I paint, I go there.” This was her refuge.
Her refuge was full of colors, but in reality, her life was fading fast.
The dream world was indeed enchanting, but she will eventually return to reality. No matter how unacceptable it was, that was the true essence of life.
“Miu Miu,” Bai Lixin looked down at Miu Miu, “I still have your painting here.”
The little girl looked up in confusion, “What painting?”
Bai Lixin took out the crumpled paper from his backpack and carefully spread it out on the desk.
The colors in the center of the white paper were already blurred due to smudging, but it could vaguely be seen that there was a mermaid with a golden fishtail in the center of the painting.
“This is the painting you brought with you. You should still remember it, right?”
The little girl lowered her head and stared blankly at the blurred and messy painting. Her face, which had just been full of enthusiasm, now looked very fragile, like a glass doll that would shatter upon touching.
“ I’ve actually been thinking about something, Miu Miu.”
The little girl looked up hesitantly and asked, “What is it?”
“Last time, when we were over the palace ruins, I accidentally entered your memories. I saw many hidden past events through your memories.”
Bai Lixin and the silver-haired wizard locked eyes, and the wizard pulled a chair out of the corner and handed it to Bai Lixin.
The young man shrugged, took the chair, and sat down. He pondered for a moment, then organized his words before continuing, “At that time, I had a question. If I saw something in your memories that you couldn’t see, how could I see it?”
“What do you mean?” Miu Miu asked, biting her lip.
Bai Lixin: “For example, if you are in the study, you can’t see the conversation between your father and stepmother outside the study, right?”
Miu Miu bit her lip and thought for a moment, then nodded. “Yes, I can’t see it.”
Bai Lixin: “But I saw it.”
“And now, as I recall the perspective at that time,” Bai Lixin pinched his chin with one hand, thinking and slowly recalling the scene at that time, “it seems that it was not through your perspective but through someone else’s perspective.”
Miu Miu hadn’t appeared in her mother’s ward yet, but he could see those people arguing.
Miu Miu was hiding in the study, but he could see Miu Miu’s father and stepmother’s conversation about betrayal.
Miu Miu was licking her wounds in the corner, but he could follow the thugs and see the conversation between them and the son.
At that time, he was eager to understand Miu Miu’s past, but he overlooked this point. Now, thinking about it, this was obviously a God’s perspective or the special perspective of “someone”.
Miu Miu’s face changed when she heard this, and the small white face that was already pale turned even whiter. “What, what do you mean? Are you saying there’s a ghost around me?”
An Invisible ghost, has been secretly observing and monitoring her?
—————–
In the live broadcast m room.
[Fuck, brothers, I suggest that God Xin switches to telling ghost stories. I got goosebumps.]
[Do you think you’re the only one out of it? I have to say, it’s just a bit scary when you imagine it.]
[Fairy tales instantly turn into ghost stories? I couldn’t have imagined such a twist.]
———————–
Bai Lixin glanced at Miu Miu, and said with a suspicious tone, “Think about it again. When you were crossing the road, a car was about to hit you, but it seemed to be suddenly affected by some supernatural force that made it deviate from its course and hit the pole instead of you.”
“And the last time you fell into the sea, although your family came to take you away, after falling into the water, you were not washed away or sunk, but instead, you were brought to shore by the waves.”
“I observed at the time that the wave that brought you to shore was also quite strange, as if it had made a turn just to bring you ashore.”
“Isn’t that strange? It’s like someone was protecting you.”
At first, Miu Miu didn’t understand what Bai Lixin meant, but the more she listened, the more she understood.
She frowned and looked at the tattered drawing on the table. In the blurred colors, she could still see the mermaid smiling at her.
“So you’re saying that my mother didn’t leave me, and her spirit is still guarding me?”
Bai Lixin’s eyes deepened. “I think it’s very possible.”
Miu Miu’s eyes wandered for a few seconds. She shifted her gaze to the left and saw the drawing of her mother holding her hand in the beautiful landscape.
One was a thick and perfect piece of paper, the other was a tattered and broken one. One had clear and bright colors, the other had blurry colors.
The two mothers looked at her, and it seemed as if they were questioning her.
Miu Miu’s head began to ache, and she rubbed her forehead in pain. She lowered her gaze and stared at her fuzzy slippers, but she didn’t dare to look up at Bai Lixin.
“To be honest, I think you already have the answer in your heart,” Bai Lixin cautiously probed to see where Miu Miu’s bottom line was. “One is the false mother in your dream, the other is the real mother in reality. It’s up to you to decide which one to choose.”
Miu Miu kept her head down and whispered in a small voice after a long time, “Why are you forcing me like this?”
“I am happy here.”
“My mother is my real mother, how could she be fake?”
Suddenly, the earth shook, and with the trembling of the earth, a huge lightning bolt struck straight down from the sky. The lightning was large and bright, as if it was going to split the sky.
The bedroom door was suddenly pushed open, and Miss Xihai took off her apron and hugged Miu Miu in her arms. Her eyes turned sharply to Bai Lixin and said, “You talk too much, get out.”
Bai Lixin shrugged and followed Miss Xihai and Miu Miu out of the room together with the silver-haired wizard.
—————–
In the live broadcast room.
[Damn, I’m almost suffocating. Why is this Miu Miu so stupid? Why can’t she wake up? This is so frustrating.]
[Even for people with strong willpower and no mental illness, there are still times when their willpower is weak. You can’t judge a patient with a shattered soul from the perspective of your healthy mind.]
[But it’s really frustrating. Just give the kid a good beating.]
[What! Did I hear that right? She’s not a naughty kid.]
[Byt she’s not a good child, learning bad things and getting into fights at such a young age.]
[What the hell! Are you a keyboard warrior? Did she intentionally fight? Did she want to? Do you know when a dog barks? Do you think dogs bark only to attack enemies? No, sometimes dogs bark to defend themselves. She might have fought to protect herself, okay?]
[I don’t care, why can’t God Xin just sweep through the enemies like before?]
[Fighting to defend oneself is indeed a protection mechanism. Among all diseases, apart from terminal illnesses, mental illness is the most difficult to treat. Even a small mistake could make the patient’s condition worse. Because each patient is different, some may have stronger willpower, while others may have weaker. Miu Miu may seem fine now, but this is actually her most vulnerable time.]
[But don’t forget, she already knew everything was fake the last time. She should have awakened by now, but she pretended that everything was real when she was awake. This means that she is extremely unwilling to accept reality. Her fragile soul is wavering between truth and falsehood and a slight touch might make it collapse. I think God Xin’s handling of the situation this time is reasonable.]
[But if Miu Miu wasn’t so fussy, we wouldn’t have this fairytale world copy in the first place. In the end, it’s her problem.]
[Hey, I have a quick temper. You’re actually using the “victim is guilty” argument. Did she intend to do that? Maybe she just wanted to have a dream, but we, the players, didn’t care whether she wanted it or not and forced ourselves into her fantasy world. Did she want that? In fact, if we really have to talk about it, we’re the ones who broke into her territory. God Xin’s frustration this time is understandable, and I don’t think it ruins his character. This was originally someone else’s territory. You can’t just be arrogant and turn everything upside down because you want to find a fly in someone else’s territory. What’s the difference between this and being a thief?]
[Hey, brothers, why are we fighting? Let’s not fight.]
[No one is even worthy of fighting with him!]
[……]
———————
Miu Miu’s pale face was nestled in Miss Xihai’s arms, while Miss Xihai carefully comforted her and glanced out the window.
Another lightning bolt struck, and a dense web of blue fragments spread out from the center of the dark blue bolt, as if the sky had been ripped open.
“Mother, I’m sleepy,” Miu Miu hugged Miss Xihai and rested her head on her chest. Miss Xihai silently patted her back, and where Miu Miu could not see, she looked towards Bai Lixin and the silver-haired wizard with triumphant eyes.
“Sleep if you’re tired, Mother is here with you,” Miss Xihai comforted Miu Miu with her mermaid’s bewitching voice.
Miu Miu quickly closed her eyes, and her breathing gradually became calm. The strange lightning in the sky also stopped with Miu Miu’s tranquility.
Once she was sure that Miu Miu had fallen asleep, Miss Xihai held her coldly and stared at the unwelcome guests in front of her. “Are you trying to kill this child?”
Bai Lixin replied, “I just want to save her. What have you done?”
Miss Xihai retorted, “Is this what you call saving her? She was on the brink of a mental breakdown, and she improved after I came to her side. If she doesn’t want to live, let her die happily. What’s wrong with that? If you wake her up, can you guarantee she’ll live? Maybe she’ll become a vegetable, or wake up and suffer for a few days before dying again.”
Bai Lixin argued, “If you don’t wake her up, she will die. If you do, she at least has a chance to live.”
“But she wants to die. If she wants to die, why do you have to stop her? You are the one harming her, and I am the one helping her,” Miss Xihai said.
“Does she really want to die?” Bai Lixin’s gaze fell on Miu Miu’s slightly trembling eyelashes. “She just misses her mother.”
“And you are the one who should die. You took advantage of the weakest point in her memory, trying to drag her into the abyss of death.”
Silver-haired wizard: “Otherwise, I can just act directly and freeze the mermaid while she’s not noticing.”
Miu Miu, who was dressed in a complicated and beautiful dress, ran like a butterfly showing off its beauty. She waved at Bai Lixin and ran towards a room further inside.
The silver-haired wizard followed behind and whispered these words in Bai Lixin’s ear with a voice only the two of them could hear.
Bai Lixin smiled imperceptibly at Miu Miu who looked back at him, and replied softly, “It won’t work.”
“Miu Miu has already used a lot of mental energy from before until now, and she is now very weak. If we kill the mermaid now, she will definitely go berserk, and this world is likely to collapse.”
The silver-haired wizard frowned and looked at the little girl with a gloomy face, then looked behind at Miss Xihai, who was poised to win. He took a deep breath and then exhaled heavily.
It was frustrating.
“What should we do? This won’t work, and that won’t work either.”
Bai Lixin said, “The one who tied the bell must untie it. We can’t use force this time.”
The two followed Miu Miu to the study. Bai Lixin had seen this room in Miu Miu’s memory before, but now it was more fulfilling than that cold memory.
Many photos were hanging on the wall and a very exquisite album was on the table.
The people in the photos were either one individual or a pair, and the characters were always Miu Miu and Miss Xihai.
Catching butterflies in the garden, camping on the grass, fishing by the river, making mud sculptures and sandcastles, and painting.
This was a hint reinforcement.
Miss Xihai constantly reinforced the fact that she was Miu Miu’s mother through the photos, ensuring that Miu Miu would not have any errors in her memory.
Noticing that Bai Lixin was looking at the photos on the wall, Miu Miu reached out her small hand and tugged at Bai Lixin’s sleeve, “Brother.”
Bai Lixin looked down and met Miu Miu’s pair of emerald eyes.
“Brother, come and see the picture I drew.”
Bai Lixin’s gaze followed Miu Miu as the little girl skillfully sat on the desk and took out a large drawing book from the drawer. She carefully flipped to the last page and stuffed the crayon drawing she had just shown Miss Xi Hai into it.
The colorful drawings dotted the entire paper, and only a child with a simple mind could draw such a special artwork.
“Did you draw this just now?” Bai Lixin pointed to the sunflower hanging in the sky. “What is this?”
Miu Miu said, “It’s a sunflower, and it’s also the sun.”
Miu Miu pulled out a yellow crayon from the crayon box at the corner of the table and added a few more strokes. “I really like sunflowers. I think sunflowers are the sun.”
Bai Lixin looked at the crayon in Miu Miu’s hand and then at the sunflower under her pen, and asked a very casual question, “Do you like drawing?”
Miu Miu said, “Yes, I like drawing.”
“Look here.” Miu Miu flipped a few pages forward and found a painting filled with sunflowers. In the center of the painting stood a little girl wearing a big sunhat. The girl had golden curly hair and emerald green eyes. Although the face didn’t look like hers, Bai Lixin could tell that the painting was of Miu Miu.
“I had never been to this place,” Miu Miu said wistfully, as she touched the edge of the paper. “I’d only seen photos of this painting. This place actually exists in a city far away from here, and I managed to go there when I finished this painting.”
Bai Lixin slowly flipped through the paintings that Miu Miu had painted. All of them were landscape paintings with bright colors and none had a person in them.
Under Miu Miu’s brush, there seemed to be no dark clouds, no thunderstorms. Even when it rained, it was a gentle spring rain.
The sun was always shining brightly, the flowers were always in full bloom, the birds were always soaring high, and the grass was always lush and verdant.
Under her brush, everything was always full of vitality.
As she had just said, “Wherever I paint, I go there.” This was her refuge.
Her refuge was full of colors, but in reality, her life was fading fast.
The dream world was indeed enchanting, but she will eventually return to reality. No matter how unacceptable it was, that was the true essence of life.
“Miu Miu,” Bai Lixin looked down at Miu Miu, “I still have your painting here.”
The little girl looked up in confusion, “What painting?”
Bai Lixin took out the crumpled paper from his backpack and carefully spread it out on the desk.
The colors in the center of the white paper were already blurred due to smudging, but it could vaguely be seen that there was a mermaid with a golden fishtail in the center of the painting.
“This is the painting you brought with you. You should still remember it, right?”
The little girl lowered her head and stared blankly at the blurred and messy painting. Her face, which had just been full of enthusiasm, now looked very fragile, like a glass doll that would shatter upon touching.
“ I’ve actually been thinking about something, Miu Miu.”
The little girl looked up hesitantly and asked, “What is it?”
“Last time, when we were over the palace ruins, I accidentally entered your memories. I saw many hidden past events through your memories.”
Bai Lixin and the silver-haired wizard locked eyes, and the wizard pulled a chair out of the corner and handed it to Bai Lixin.
The young man shrugged, took the chair, and sat down. He pondered for a moment, then organized his words before continuing, “At that time, I had a question. If I saw something in your memories that you couldn’t see, how could I see it?”
“What do you mean?” Miu Miu asked, biting her lip.
Bai Lixin: “For example, if you are in the study, you can’t see the conversation between your father and stepmother outside the study, right?”
Miu Miu bit her lip and thought for a moment, then nodded. “Yes, I can’t see it.”
Bai Lixin: “But I saw it.”
“And now, as I recall the perspective at that time,” Bai Lixin pinched his chin with one hand, thinking and slowly recalling the scene at that time, “it seems that it was not through your perspective but through someone else’s perspective.”
Miu Miu hadn’t appeared in her mother’s ward yet, but he could see those people arguing.
Miu Miu was hiding in the study, but he could see Miu Miu’s father and stepmother’s conversation about betrayal.
Miu Miu was licking her wounds in the corner, but he could follow the thugs and see the conversation between them and the son.
At that time, he was eager to understand Miu Miu’s past, but he overlooked this point. Now, thinking about it, this was obviously a God’s perspective or the special perspective of “someone”.
Miu Miu’s face changed when she heard this, and the small white face that was already pale turned even whiter. “What, what do you mean? Are you saying there’s a ghost around me?”
An Invisible ghost, has been secretly observing and monitoring her?
—————–
In the live broadcast m room.
[Fuck, brothers, I suggest that God Xin switches to telling ghost stories. I got goosebumps.]
[Do you think you’re the only one out of it? I have to say, it’s just a bit scary when you imagine it.]
[Fairy tales instantly turn into ghost stories? I couldn’t have imagined such a twist.]
———————–
Bai Lixin glanced at Miu Miu, and said with a suspicious tone, “Think about it again. When you were crossing the road, a car was about to hit you, but it seemed to be suddenly affected by some supernatural force that made it deviate from its course and hit the pole instead of you.”
“And the last time you fell into the sea, although your family came to take you away, after falling into the water, you were not washed away or sunk, but instead, you were brought to shore by the waves.”
“I observed at the time that the wave that brought you to shore was also quite strange, as if it had made a turn just to bring you ashore.”
“Isn’t that strange? It’s like someone was protecting you.”
At first, Miu Miu didn’t understand what Bai Lixin meant, but the more she listened, the more she understood.
She frowned and looked at the tattered drawing on the table. In the blurred colors, she could still see the mermaid smiling at her.
“So you’re saying that my mother didn’t leave me, and her spirit is still guarding me?”
Bai Lixin’s eyes deepened. “I think it’s very possible.”
Miu Miu’s eyes wandered for a few seconds. She shifted her gaze to the left and saw the drawing of her mother holding her hand in the beautiful landscape.
One was a thick and perfect piece of paper, the other was a tattered and broken one. One had clear and bright colors, the other had blurry colors.
The two mothers looked at her, and it seemed as if they were questioning her.
Miu Miu’s head began to ache, and she rubbed her forehead in pain. She lowered her gaze and stared at her fuzzy slippers, but she didn’t dare to look up at Bai Lixin.
“To be honest, I think you already have the answer in your heart,” Bai Lixin cautiously probed to see where Miu Miu’s bottom line was. “One is the false mother in your dream, the other is the real mother in reality. It’s up to you to decide which one to choose.”
Miu Miu kept her head down and whispered in a small voice after a long time, “Why are you forcing me like this?”
“I am happy here.”
“My mother is my real mother, how could she be fake?”
Suddenly, the earth shook, and with the trembling of the earth, a huge lightning bolt struck straight down from the sky. The lightning was large and bright, as if it was going to split the sky.
The bedroom door was suddenly pushed open, and Miss Xihai took off her apron and hugged Miu Miu in her arms. Her eyes turned sharply to Bai Lixin and said, “You talk too much, get out.”
Bai Lixin shrugged and followed Miss Xihai and Miu Miu out of the room together with the silver-haired wizard.
—————–
In the live broadcast room.
[Damn, I’m almost suffocating. Why is this Miu Miu so stupid? Why can’t she wake up? This is so frustrating.]
[Even for people with strong willpower and no mental illness, there are still times when their willpower is weak. You can’t judge a patient with a shattered soul from the perspective of your healthy mind.]
[But it’s really frustrating. Just give the kid a good beating.]
[What! Did I hear that right? She’s not a naughty kid.]
[Byt she’s not a good child, learning bad things and getting into fights at such a young age.]
[What the hell! Are you a keyboard warrior? Did she intentionally fight? Did she want to? Do you know when a dog barks? Do you think dogs bark only to attack enemies? No, sometimes dogs bark to defend themselves. She might have fought to protect herself, okay?]
[I don’t care, why can’t God Xin just sweep through the enemies like before?]
[Fighting to defend oneself is indeed a protection mechanism. Among all diseases, apart from terminal illnesses, mental illness is the most difficult to treat. Even a small mistake could make the patient’s condition worse. Because each patient is different, some may have stronger willpower, while others may have weaker. Miu Miu may seem fine now, but this is actually her most vulnerable time.]
[But don’t forget, she already knew everything was fake the last time. She should have awakened by now, but she pretended that everything was real when she was awake. This means that she is extremely unwilling to accept reality. Her fragile soul is wavering between truth and falsehood and a slight touch might make it collapse. I think God Xin’s handling of the situation this time is reasonable.]
[But if Miu Miu wasn’t so fussy, we wouldn’t have this fairytale world copy in the first place. In the end, it’s her problem.]
[Hey, I have a quick temper. You’re actually using the “victim is guilty” argument. Did she intend to do that? Maybe she just wanted to have a dream, but we, the players, didn’t care whether she wanted it or not and forced ourselves into her fantasy world. Did she want that? In fact, if we really have to talk about it, we’re the ones who broke into her territory. God Xin’s frustration this time is understandable, and I don’t think it ruins his character. This was originally someone else’s territory. You can’t just be arrogant and turn everything upside down because you want to find a fly in someone else’s territory. What’s the difference between this and being a thief?]
[Hey, brothers, why are we fighting? Let’s not fight.]
[No one is even worthy of fighting with him!]
[……]
———————
Miu Miu’s pale face was nestled in Miss Xihai’s arms, while Miss Xihai carefully comforted her and glanced out the window.
Another lightning bolt struck, and a dense web of blue fragments spread out from the center of the dark blue bolt, as if the sky had been ripped open.
“Mother, I’m sleepy,” Miu Miu hugged Miss Xihai and rested her head on her chest. Miss Xihai silently patted her back, and where Miu Miu could not see, she looked towards Bai Lixin and the silver-haired wizard with triumphant eyes.
“Sleep if you’re tired, Mother is here with you,” Miss Xihai comforted Miu Miu with her mermaid’s bewitching voice.
Miu Miu quickly closed her eyes, and her breathing gradually became calm. The strange lightning in the sky also stopped with Miu Miu’s tranquility.
Once she was sure that Miu Miu had fallen asleep, Miss Xihai held her coldly and stared at the unwelcome guests in front of her. “Are you trying to kill this child?”
Bai Lixin replied, “I just want to save her. What have you done?”
Miss Xihai retorted, “Is this what you call saving her? She was on the brink of a mental breakdown, and she improved after I came to her side. If she doesn’t want to live, let her die happily. What’s wrong with that? If you wake her up, can you guarantee she’ll live? Maybe she’ll become a vegetable, or wake up and suffer for a few days before dying again.”
Bai Lixin argued, “If you don’t wake her up, she will die. If you do, she at least has a chance to live.”
“But she wants to die. If she wants to die, why do you have to stop her? You are the one harming her, and I am the one helping her,” Miss Xihai said.
“Does she really want to die?” Bai Lixin’s gaze fell on Miu Miu’s slightly trembling eyelashes. “She just misses her mother.”
“And you are the one who should die. You took advantage of the weakest point in her memory, trying to drag her into the abyss of death.”
