Less than a minute later Professor Alia and two other professors rushed to Julia and bombarded her with questions. They were a mix of if she was okay and how she got down here.

 Julia, with a torrent of her own questions struggled to figure out how to answer them. Ghost, that Frank talked about a ghost, what ghost? Was that what happened to Luna? But that still doesn’t explain much.

Still, thankfully she didn’t need to answer all the questions as they were more concerned about getting her back out of the dungeon safely. They thought her lack of response was due to her being in shock, which she probably was. So they quickly brought her out of the dungeon and straight to the infirmary.

After giving her a quick checkup she was left alone in a bed in which she lay there trying to process her day. Okay Julia. Have you gone insane? Or was this day just insanity? She thought to herself as she stared out the window and stared at the tranquil trees gently moving back and forth from the breeze.

She leaned back on the bed and closed her eyes. That girl, Luna, had been manipulating her supposed groom to be for the past two days. Codrol seemed madly in love with her, as well as several other men. It seemed that she was trying to gather a flock of them.

Luna herself was strange, the few times she met her Luna always looked unwell. Her occasional smug grin would often either disappear or be replaced with an almost sickly-looking girl. What bothered her most was when she was attacked. Luna seemed to be fighting herself while acting and moving far differently. She was floating like she was possessed by a ghost. Ghost just like what that boy told her.

That F-rank who she didn’t know the name of and who first appeared yesterday and had an awkward interaction with her appeared again to save her life. How and why an F rank was there and able to do that remained a mystery.

Maybe I can get my answers from him. She thought. From what she gathered the source where she can get her answers would be that F-rank. She would just need to find and question him. Though considering what he was able to do against those fire wolves with his bare hands, she doubted that there was much strong-arming she could do against him. She would need to approach her tactically.

Footsteps approached her bed and she opened her eyes and looked over. It was Professor Alia and a nurse standing watching her carefully.

“How are you feeling Julia?” Alia asked gently, her smiling nature from last time was not present, and a look of serious concern was strewn about her face.

“I’m fine.” Julia said nodding.

“You don’t have any serious injuries, so you are free to leave anytime you want.” The nurse said.

“But first I’m going to ask you a few questions.” Alia said, “Is that alright?”

“Uh, yes. I’ll try to answer them.” Julia said nodding her head as the nurse left.

“What happened? You went through a hidden passageway to the fourth floor that we didn’t even know about. How did you wind up down there?”

“I was pushed in.”

“By who?”

“I… don’t know. I couldn’t see, they were shrouded.” Julia said. She thought that the only chance of her getting all her answers was to first keep the full truth from the faculty. She knew that was a stupid thought, but her curiosity won out.

“Hmm.” Alia said pondering, “What happened down there? We found several gemstones down there surrounding you.”

“I don’t know. I fought off a couple but then before they could surround me some strange person came out and fought them and ran.”

“Another stranger? Do you have any idea who they are? Saw their face or anything?”

“No. I couldn’t tell you who they were. Their back was to me.” Julia said. A partial lie, she really didn’t know who the F-rank was and they did have their back to her while fighting the dire wolves.

“Interesting.” Alia said deep in thought as the door to the infirmary swung open and Julia’s friends Reniece and Trista entered the room.

“Julia are you alright!” They asked in concern as they rushed to her.

“Uh, yeah. I’m not hurt.” Julia said smiling at them, glad that they were okay.

“You two were in her party. How did you get separated?” Alia asked.

“We were fighting some large ants and then we just somehow got separated.” Trista said, “What happened?”

“She was shoved down a passageway by an unknown assailant.” Alia said.

“What?” They both exclaimed looking to Julia.

“It’s okay. I’m fine.” Julia assured them.

“I’ll leave you three alone. Don’t worry Julia, we will find the culprit.” Alia said excusing herself and leaving the infirmary. She made a small face of annoyance while she was alone.

That girl Julia was lying about something. She didn’t know what, she was hiding something. She doubted that the faculty would look further into this after Julia’s report, they’ll be busy trying to search for the culprit based on the clues taken at face value. But she doubted that what Julia said was all that happened and she intended to find out the truth with or without the rest of the faculty.