Chapter 380: The Cave That Remembered Blood
Sophia had learned to recognize the feeling before the world even finished dissolving.
It always began the same way — the soft hollowing of reality, as though someone had quietly scooped the weight out of the air. Sound dulled first. Then color bled thin, edges smearing like wet ink on parchment. Her body followed last, sensation draining from her limbs until she no longer felt the ground beneath her feet… or the breath in her lungs.
Watching.
Her stomach clenched as the familiar wrongness settled into her bones.
Again.
"Why…" The word left her mouth without sound. "Why is this happening again? Why now?"
Only moments ago — or what felt like moments ago — she had been running. The test had been ongoing in the forest.
But she had not even been able to start her individual test because of Holly. Sophia concluded that Holly was unhinged and blinded with jealousy, unable to tell what was real and what wasn't real.
