âCome clean with me.
Whatâs got you two so jumpy about the forest? Are you keeping something from me?â
Calebâs face crumbled and he looked helpless.
After a brief hesitation, he asked, âDebra, remember that peculiar forest where we trailed the man in black?â
I nodded, raising an inquisitive brow.
âYeah, I do.
What about it?â
Caleb let out a sigh, his words measured.
âThatâs the foggy woods.
When we were there before, we stuck to the outskirts, and it was nighttime, so we werenât profoundly affected.
But during the day, itâs a different story.
â
âWhy do you say that?â I pressed.
Calebâs eyes locked onto mine, and he spoke with deliberate caution.
âBecause in the woods, we can only see things at night.
At daytime, itâs shrouded in a dense white fog, and we canât even tell left from right.
Just like I told you back then, itâs treacherous in those woods.
Stepping inside could spell death at any moment.
â
Calebâs explanation left me even more bewildered.
I still couldnât fathom what had terrified Caleb and Carlos so deeply, rendering them mute.
They went as far as preventing me from rescuing the innocent folks of Roz Town.
A forest cloaked in a milky mist, disorienting anyone who entered, shouldnât hold such perilous secrets.
There had to be more to this.
I didnât want to dance around the issue, so I confronted Caleb.
âCaleb, why is the deep foggy forest so dangerous? What on earth is inside?â
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Caleb and Carlos exchanged glances, their expressions fraught with helplessness.
Caleb finally said, âWhen werewolves venture into that fog-shrouded realm, something inexplicable takes hold of them.
They become frenzied, even losing their sanity.
They turn on each other.
Itâs a dire hazard for our kind.
â
My astonishment was palpable.
âHow is that even possible?â
Did Melany and the others lose contact because theyâd succumbed to madness?
Could they really be beyond hope? I gulped.
âIn the records of the Thorn Edge Pack, itâs whispered that ages ago, our forebears eradicated all the witches dwelling in the woods.
The lingering grudge of those witches cloaked the forest for an eternity.