Path of Illusions

*_Talk to them? Isn't that dangerous?_* my mind kept replaying the image of the previous villagers with their rows of jagged-looking teeth.

*_You will make no progress if you don't._*

So I shut my eyes once more and said, “Hello,” to the villager standing closest to me. The little person looked up, and I was shocked to see the same face that had wanted to make a meal out of me in the previous vill