The blue orb lay on the ground exactly where it shouldn't be.
It glowed with the same steady pulse they had been following, sitting innocently on the spongy forest floor just meters away from them. But instead of being outside the Forbidden Mist where Seraphine had thrown it hours ago, it was here – inside, surrounded by the same white vapor that enclosed everything else.
This is impossible, Leon thought, his mind struggling to reconcile what he was seeing with what he knew had happened. I watched her throw it. I saw it land outside the mist. There's no way it could have moved on its own.
He turned to Seraphine, needing confirmation despite having witnessed the event himself. "You threw it outside, didn't you?" The question came out more as a statement seeking reassurance than a genuine inquiry. He had seen it with his own eyes. Still, the impossibility of the situation made him doubt even his own memories.
