"So cold."
At Green Lake Inn, Angelina, clutching a cat as she watched the campfire before her, suddenly nodded off. Then she came to her senses and realized she had actually fallen asleep just now.
The little princess had truly been exhausted today. Fear and tension had caused her to fall asleep beside the campfire without even knowing when it happened. The moment she woke, she immediately felt an unnatural chill all around her. When she opened her mouth and softly sighed, she discovered white mist coming from her lips as she spoke—a phenomenon that only happened in winter:
"What's going on?"
She was still holding the cat in her arms. With the surroundings abnormally cold and even the flames before her unable to provide warmth, the cat seemed especially warm.
Worried that the cat might freeze, kind-hearted Angelina even wanted to tuck it inside her clothes, but Little Mia struggled and refused.
She looked around. Rain was still pouring outside the windows, yet she was now the only one left beside the three dim campfires on the 1st Floor of the inn. The temperature seemed to have dropped below freezing, and frost covered the slick floor and tabletops, making Angelina, who was still dressed in summer clothes, feel even colder.
"Where did everyone else go?"
Shivering, she stood up, only to feel that exposing more of her body to the cold made her feel even colder. She reached out to touch the flames before her, but even when she pushed her hand completely into the fire, she felt no warmth at all.
Beyond the cold, she felt another kind of "cold" that made even her soul tremble. It stiffened her body, gave her a headache, and made her dizzy. The Whisper Element caused severe discomfort to this ordinary seventeen-year-old