Madeline's POV

To unwind from everything that had happened yesterday, I decided to go outside the cabin early in the morning. Even if the sun was still not rising, I had already changed clothes. Yesterday, I was wearing a dress from Countess Marissa, but because I was not comfortable in the first place, I borrowed one of the combat clothes from Victor.

I cleaned up my sword as I surveyed my eyes around the backyard, where the end is a dark forest. It was the same forest where the witch queen ...