This time I am in a forest. It takes a second before I realize where exactly, but the trees look old and rotten, with brown leaves waiting to fall on the dirty ground. This must be Earth since the world that I saw in the first illusion was blooming with beauty and vitality.
Juliana looks even worse than the last time, her skin looks so pale that if I wouldn't see her eyes moving, I would say she is just a statue. Her hair had lost its color and now it's resting grey on her skinny shoulders. A ghost of the beautiful woman I first saw.
But the old man staying in front of her didn't change a bit. In this lifeless picture, his graceful appearance seems uncanny.
"I will not break a gate that stood closed for centuries only for your desire, Juliana!"
"My desire?" She approaches the old man f
