"Why not tell Mr. Luli the truth?"
At the edge of the dead forest, Mildred Hampri and Blitz Tailor looked out at the silhouettes of the students being engulfed by the mist.
"This is his chance... you didn't say anything either."
Mildred Hampri watched as that figure stepped into the fog, then turned back toward the cabin.
...
The thick, cheese-like gray mist pulled at Lu Li, it blocked off companions nearby, blocked surrounding sounds, surging silently.
As the thick sensation was about to drag down Lu Li's steps, it disappeared like the last wisp of smoke rising from a burnt-out campfire.
Lu Li walked out of the mist.
Vast and eerie, gloomy and oppressive, twisted branches wrapped in vines and the distant expanse of dead forests were suspended in the air.
