Chapter 707

---- I stumbled up the stairs, my dress tangling around my legs, but I never stopped.

I reached a corridor that split into two.

Ihesitated, ---- feeling lost.

Once again, I shut my eyes, focusing, trying to "sense" and trust my instincts.

That way," I whispered, starting to run.

I could almost see that thin red line before my eyes, like a thread tying us together.

Ireached the end of a secluded wing one I had never been in before.

I didn't know why, but it looked somewhat abandoned.

Aheavy door blocked my way, but I noticed it was slightly open he must have come through here! I stepped inside cautiously, in case he was setting up an ambush, and scanned what looked like the antechamber of a room.

I checked behind the door suddenlynothing.

The path was clear, so I moved forward, step by step, on high alert.

I pleaded internally as I saw the " signal"

was happening? Was that man getting further away? But where could he go? This place seemed like

bed, in the neglected bathroom,

dust

tapestry? A trapdoor? Nothing nothing, damn it! Then suddenly, a

in a discreet corner

an

approached, the burn on my hand

hand

waiting inside, ready to strike? I glanced around, grabbed a heavy vase filled with rotten, withered flowers, and emptied it,

weapon, I finally reached for

round handle and pulled it down, my heart pounding like a drum at a

back slightlybut nothing could have prepared me for what

Only an empty space.

too large to be just a

staring into the dark, square, claustrophobic

down my

I remembered that one of the doctors treatments was locking me

her," I whispered to myself, trying to gather

inch of my body

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