Mizpah did not go to the palace but made a detour just at the entrance leading to the forest. The beast said not a word to Maya who seemed lost in her thoughts, she felt woozy and detached from her thoughts and feelings. The incident from a moment ago seemed far off, she wanted to go back, and revisit how she felt about the whole challenge thing, but it seemed as if an invisible barrier in her mind prevented her from accessing the whole incident. She felt frustrated but could not churn the kind of feelings that a frustrated person felt, she wanted to ask her friend Mizpah, but words would not form in her mind and mouth.
They headed west without stopping, Mizpah seemed to have a destination in mind, but his rider stayed zombie like on his back, reacting neither to the beauty surrounding he
