47| I'm lost!

CASEY

"I'm lost!"

This is so embarrassing. Since then, I've just been going round and round here. I am curious to know how many times I have seen the same tree. I am tired.

I fell to my knees on the surface of the forest soil covered in rotting humus. I looked up at the sky, whose colour had turned purplish orange.

"It'll be dark soon. Why did I dare to go this far? Why should I go into the forest and follow Malik? I don't know this place. And who knows what wild animals there are in this forest."

I forced myself to get back to my feet even though I was stumbling. While holding on to one of the tree trunks. I had marked the tree trunk using a rock I found, but I came back to it again.

"Even though I just wanted to see the aurora, I ended up getting lost far from where I was supposed to be. It's impossible in the middle of a dense forest like this, right? They say the aurora should be visible on the mountain ridge area, which is a field of eternal flowers."

I'm sure I heard people at t