Flying from Northern City to Paris takes eight hours, and Northern City is seven hours ahead of Paris. When Elise Don got off the plane, she felt an illusion that she had just boarded the plane and was now back on the ground.
It was still morning, and people were bustling at the airport. Her father and Oliver Bloom seemed to have not gone far.
While waiting to collect her luggage, Elise Don instinctively looked around, but unfortunately there were no familiar faces; each Caucasian face, white skin, and brown eyes all reminded her that she was in a foreign country.
The freedom she had longed for seemed not as beautiful as Elise Don had imagined when it unfolded before her.
She first struggled to pick up four large suitcases, stacked them on the trolley one by one, and then pushed them through the gate, queued for a taxi.
