Belle pushed herself up from the ground of the land of the dead, with the stillness of the land settling inside her. She didn't know how she had ended up here when she hadn't been here for many months now.
Everything around her was covered with fog, but as her eyes settled on her surroundings, she belatedly realized she had not woken up anywhere close to the castle, or even a mirror of Aragonia in this world, but in a place she knew from experience she shouldn't be, the cemetery.
Kuhn's warning about cemeteries in the land of the dead was still clear as day in her mind, and the fact that she had experienced it firsthand when taking Rohan's heart back made her wary. Spirits and lost souls resided in cemeteries, where they searched for things to latch onto and live on, especially a living body.
