After leaving the eerie forest, Grace and her group followed the elderly man's directions and headed southeast.

The deeper they went into the grove, the denser the fog became. The leaves no longer rustled with their pleasant sound. Instead, an unsettling stillness hung in the air. The faint, fresh scent of the woods carried an underlying trace of something sickly sweet.

"Ms. Linsor, can we really trust what that elderly man said?" Judith asked, lowering her voice and glancing around warily.

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