ZARAI stood rooted to the ground, my feet refusing to move as I tried to understand what the mysterious woman had just said to me.For a few seconds, my mind went completely blank. Her words kept echoing in my head, but they didn’t fully settle. It was like hearing something important through a thick wall, knowing it mattered, knowing it could change everything, but still struggling to make sense of it.Answers.She had said she could give me answers.Answers to what exactly? The strange glow. The men who had tried to take my biological samples.By the time it finally clicked that I should have asked more questions, I snapped out of my daze and rushed after her.“Wait!” I called, hurrying toward the hallway she had disappeared into.But when I got there, she was gone.Completely gone.I looked left, then right, searching the dim hallway, but there was no trace of the woman in red.A chill crept over my skin.“Are you looking for someone?” Ghost asked from behind me.I opened my mouth
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