The Mist of Strangeness faded away in the morning as usual,
revealing the ugly, devastated land, with the endless sound of the ocean waves dispelling the deadly silence.
Anna's illusory silhouette appeared at the cave entrance. She first looked toward the cliff top. Annie was safe and sound, and Rem's cabin had not been damaged, as if the howling that echoed through half the night was just an illusion.
Anna brought a telescope, but realized she didn't need it to see everything that had happened the night before.
A bizarre and extremely distorted vortex, stretched and elongated, seemed to engulf anyone who looked at it, appearing where Oak Forest used to be.
It extended from the mid-slope of Oak Forest to the top of the mountain, covering most of the Oak Street District, everything curling inward, twisting into the shape of a vortex.
