I stood there, lost in the moment. The crowd weaved to and fro around me, a living current of bodies and noise, and for a breath my vision swam — like the world and everything in it might collapse inward, swallowed whole by my own eyes.
What was I supposed to do? How was I supposed to go about any of this? It wasn't as if I'd ever been to Faeren Heights before.
'Maybe I should just find…'
Someone suddenly brushed past me. But the strange thing was they didn't just brush past — the person grabbed my hand and ran, dragging me along.
"Hurry! We have no time!"
'Eh?'
My legs moved after him automatically, stumbling into a sprint before my brain caught up. As I got a proper look at him, my brows rose in confusion.
'Wasn't that the guy from outside just now?'
It was baffling. He'd been putting on quite the show about wanting to get in, all desperate pleading and theatrical despair.
'How did he get in?'
