As Maya delved deeper into her research, strange things began to happen. Visions, vivid and haunting, crept into her mind like malevolent specters. She would close her eyes for but a moment, and suddenly, she was transported to another place, another time, where the puppeteers' influence reigned supreme.
In one vision, she saw Xavier, trapped in a nightmarish labyrinth, his screams of agony echoing through the darkness. In another, Sophia was ensnared in a web of shadows, her every step leading her further into a bottomless abyss. Tavian, Gabriel, Victor Rookwood, and Ezra, each faced their own horrors in these nightmarish visions.
These nightmares were not mere figments of Maya's imagination. They were the puppeteers' retaliation, their way of warning her to cease her investigation. But Maya was not easily deterred. She knew that the knowledge she possessed was their only hope of breaking free from the puppeteers' control.