Sylvia's POV:

Almost immediately, the sticky swamp mud engulfed my body, weighing and sucking me down into the pit. My instincts told me to struggle, but soon I realized that it only made me sink faster.

After panicking for a moment, I stopped and stabilized myself, refusing to move an inch.

I carefully turned to Peter, who was standing on the shore. "What happened?"

Peter smiled sheepishly and held up his hand. "Sorry. I stumbled a little bit and accidentally pulled the vine."

He then pulled on the vine again, causing me to sink deeper into the swamp. I felt that something was off, but I still pretended to be calm and asked him for help anyway. "That's fine. Can you just pull me out now?"

Just then, Peter tossed the vine away from him. The innocent look on his face was replaced with mockery. "Pull you out? In your dreams."

face hardened. "What do you mean by that? Are you saying that you

smile. "Yes! What

sent you? Who was

that Peter was not just some student. Participating in a stunt like this was detrimental to his future, but he did it anyway. There had to be a

the swamp. Pretending to be guilty, he sighed. "Fine. Since

He

you would definitely die today."

ignored him, deciding it was better to spend my energy in trying to think of a way out of

the button, the army patrolling around the forbidden forest would come and save

go ahead and call for help with that

be foiled this simply. If he really wanted me to die, he wouldn't go through all this trouble just for me to be saved by this small device. I began to wonder. Was this device secretly broken

troops around the forest come and

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