Chapter 89: System of Another World
I opened my eyes with a sharp gasp, sitting bolt upright on our bed of furs.
The quiet wooden cabin room was bathed in the warm morning light of early spring.
The crisp air filtering through the cracks smelled faintly of melting snow, pine resin, and the lingering, musk heavy scent of the previous night.
I sat frozen for a long moment, my chest heaving as the phantom warmth of the blue system portal faded from my skin.
My hands still trembled, but the crushing weight that had sat on my chest since the day I fell into this strange world had finally lifted. Mei Mei was alive. Unhinged, muddy, and wildly offended...but alive.
"Lily...?" a deep, raspy voice hummed behind me.
Axis stirred beside me, the soft velvet of his antlers brushing gently against the bare skin of my shoulder.
