The night sky over the Lands Between was gloomy, with neither stars nor moon.
Aside from the enormous Erdtree, which blocked out nearly half the sky and only grew a little brighter at night, the clouds, and the Erdtree saplings scattered here and there, there was nothing else to see.
For one reason or another, the troublesome little girl had ultimately decided not to spend the night in the ruins of Summonwater Village, which she had nearly burned to the ground. Instead, she headed south along the lake and randomly teleported to a church that also had a statue of Marika.
"Slurp..."
(??~??) Mm-hmm...
"Delicious!"
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"Mm-hmm, mm-hmm..."
(￣~￣) Chomp!
Annie was in absolute bliss, eating top-quality soba noodles from the Soba Willow, made with the naturally flowing curry sauce from the miracle well known as the "Curry Well" in the world of gourmet food. The sauce was blended with herbs in the golden ratio, giving the noodles a wonderfully crisp yet chewy texture. She was also biting into fruit that tasted like perfectly roasted toffee-syrup mint biscuits, and sipping yogurt from Yogurt Island.
Anyway, with so many delicious foods to comfort her, she had pretty much forgotten all the unpleasant things that had happened earlier: first being ambushed by a Black Knife Assassin, then being attacked by the skeletons summoned by that undead boatman.
As far as Annie was concerned, as long as she had something tasty to eat or something fun to do, she could put everything else out of her mind and ignore it all!
To sum it up: nothing mattered more than Queen Annie eating, drinking, and having fun. Everything else, whether important or trivial, urgent or not, was completely unimportant!
"..."
(???????)
"Eh?"
(??????)????
Just then, as Annie camped out in the Church of