Creepy woods

We had finally arrived at the woods and I must say that there was something off about it. I mean, what was with the numerous vultures, why the fog, why the utter silence? I could not even hear a Bird’s song or a tiny Cricket sound. Everything about the woods was just too creepy…

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ANASTASIA’S POV

I never knew my Lord was not in his room until Sage sent me to call on him when the Master could not wake up. I had knocked several times on his door and got no response, then walked in on my own due to the urgency of the matter. However, I found the room empty; he did not even make use of the bath I had earlier prepared for him.

I could not recall anywhere he was likely to be that I had not checked so far because I had gone to the seashore, searched the woods, and searched the Master’s garden, yet he was not there. I even checked the Throne-room and the temple, but he was not.

I only realized that my Lord was nowhere around the