Cold. Faye could only feel cold. The deadly silent night air wrapping around her and the dreadful silence spread across the path, shrouding it in darkness. She had decided to leave something she once thought precious behind. It had come from a long time of thinking, pondering, and anguishing over the rights and wrongs. But ultimately, she just knew it inside her heart that it was the right decision. She just couldn’t stay in Blue Pegasus anymore, knowing that being in the guild brings her no more joy. In fact, sometimes it felt too limiting, like there was an invisible chain pulling her back from the things she truly wanted to do and achieve. And that was how she had ended it. It was pure coincidence that they ran into each other. Her meeting with the guild master had been brief and without any drama. She had sat down and bared her thoughts to the old master one by one, her insecurities, fear, ambitions, and wishes. They just conversed like that for a long time with the faint scent of chamomile tea floating around the both of them.
When she left the private room, it was close to midnight and Faye had wandered aimlessly around the town for a long time as if to take in the sight of it for one last time before making her way up north. She would leave the town that night and clear up the mixed thoughts in her head. At least that was what she had in mind until she found herself lost in the forest. The clear imbalance in her emotions had, in the end, led Faye to be careless as she navigated the forest, ending up in a clearing that she had never been to and has no recollection of. It was just her and the moonless night sky.