NovelEnglishChapter 345 She had always been there.
She watched as the girl's silhouette faded into the distance.
The darkness that had clouded her vision dissolved, replaced by a bracing chill in the air. Overhead, the sky shimmered with a river of stars. She tilted her head back and laughed, refusing to let the tears fall.
The Milky Way was dazzling.
Unable to contain herself, she stretched her arms wide, filling her lungs with the crisp, free air, and burst into laughter. She ran, nimble and wild, over the scattered stones of the hillside, her deep red cloak whipping in the wind, vivid and alive beneath the starlit sky, blazing like a phoenix in full flame.
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtHer soul soared. Mila laughed, and as she laughed, tears spilled down her cheeks tears of irrepressible joy.
"Ha... haha..." "Hahaha! I'm Mila! I'm Mila-did you hear me? I am Mila!" She ran through the empty fields, shouting her ninto the night.
The wind roared across the land, tugging gently at her hair and cloak as if answering her her laughter chased by the wind, echoing across the hills and valleys.
"Cousin!" "Where are you, Mila? Where did you go? You scaredhalf to death! I woke up and you were gone-my soul nearly left my body! We chere together, you know-you can't just go back alone! My parents would kill me!" Mila grabbed the boy spinning circles around her, cutting off his panicked ramble.
"Do you have anything to eat? I'm starving." In the dining hall- Archie watched Mila devour a plateful of ribs, elegant yet quick, and couldn't shake the feeling that something was off.
"Your head doesn't hurt anymore?" Mila shook her head, too busy eating to answer.
"Your appetite's back, too?" He stared as she demolished one beef rib after another. In the past few days, Mila had barely been able to eat the bare minimum, always looking pale and sickly. He'd never seen her like this.
Mila nodded. "Just got back from a run. I'm hungry." "Are you nuts?!" Archie gawked. "Aren't you worried about altitude sickness coming back? How are you better this fast? Was the doctor's incense really that magical?" "Doctor? Incense?" Mila paused, now that her hunger wasn't clawing at her stomach, and finally felt like talking.
Archie recounted how the traveling doctor had cto see her.
"He kept muttering about fate and illness and... I don't know, it was creepy. What did you even have, Mila? You really freakedout." Mila blinked in surprise.
"So that explains the scent. Where's the doctor now? I'd like to thank him." Archie shook his head.
"He's gone. Just a wandering doctor, passing through. He cured you that night and left right after. Said something about meeting again if fate allows-all mysterious and stuff. Honestly, this trip, we've run into more weird people and weirder things than I can count." "Oh, right." Archie suddenly remembered, pulling a small paper packet from his pocket and handing it to her. "The doctor left this for you said to take one pill after every meal, and when you're done, you'll be completely healed."
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏmMila opened the packet to find dozens of tiny black pills. Their herbal scent was sharp and invigorating, clearing her mind just by breathing it in. She smiled.
Another encounter with someone extraordinary. This journey was worth it.
Archie watched her smile, and it finally hit him-there was something different about her. Not just livelier... it was hard to put into words.
She seemed... more beautiful?
It wasn't that she hadn't been lively before, but now her beauty was radiant, free of the shadow that used to linger behind her eyes. Like a jewel, once hidden and dulled by dust, now gleaming so brightly he couldn't look away-drawn in, wanting to reach out and touch. Wait, what was he thinking?
Archie snapped out of it, shaking his head. Mila raised her eyebrows.m surprised. "What's gotten into you? I'm finally better, and now you're acting weird?" "No, no, nothing." He instinctively scooted further down the bench, then remembered why they'd call this way. "So, Mila-did you find your answer?" That was why Mila wanted to go to Solaris City: she was searching for an answer.
But as Archie watched her now, he couldn't help but wonder-did that answer even matter anymore? Did their journey still need to continue? Mila hesitated, too.
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