I turned in every direction. Nothing looked familiar. The forest was silent. Too silent. I wasn’t even wearing a shirt.
“What the hell is going on?”
I immediately sat up and looked around. Tall trees surrounded me in every direction. Birds chirped somewhere above, and the morning sun filtered through the leaves.
“This has to be a joke…”
I looked down at myself. My jeans were dirty, my feet were covered in mud, and my shirt was nowhere to be seen. I slowly stood up, turning in circles.
“How did I get here?”
The last thing I remembered was lying on my bed after touching the artifact. After that… nothing.
A strange feeling settled in my stomach. Did someone bring me here? Or… did I walk here myself?
“No…” I rubbed my forehead. “That doesn’t even make sense.”
Then I remembered my pho
