Chapter 151

In the pitch-black stairwell, a tall figure filled Elara's vision completely. Eryndor seemed to disregard everyone but her, but it didn't even look like it was intentional. Rather, it was as if he couldn't see the other two living people beside Elara. Ashley and James were like pebbles on the roadside. They existed, but their existence would never be registered. This was because they didn't matter. They were overlooked because, to Eryndor, they were just part of the background. At first, Elara thought this was just an instinctive trait of cold-blooded creatures. But later, she realized that some kind of subtle resonance was affecting her and changing her. More than once, she found herself unconsciously ignoring them, too. Even when Ashley kept calling her name, and James kept talking to her, she couldn't hear them. Their figures were right there, yet she couldn't see them. It was a bizarre sensation. They had vanished from her mind. It wasn't until the moment she recalled why