Taking a deep breath, I stretched my neck. A cracking sound echoed from within my body.

"Feels satisfying, but there's something oddly unsettling about it."

I still didn’t know where that sound was coming from.

Leaning away from the tree I’d been resting against, I started walking. Time was up, and I didn’t want to delay any further.

If it wasn’t going to come to me, I’d just have to go to it.

The gray mountain range looked like it was suffering from severe bald patches, with sparse trees scattered around. This made the terrain easy to navigate at a …