Chapter 0490

Nina

I was standing in the middle of a dark forest, the air heavy and thick with fog. Moonlight pierced through the canopy of tall pine trees, casting elongated shadows that seemed to dance and flicker in the wind.

But I wasn't alone.

There it was again-the shadow entity I had been seeing far too often lately. Its outline always seemed to be changing and morphing every time I saw it, and yet it always felt familiar in the most unsettling of ways.

"What do you want?" I called out.

But there was no answer. It beckoned to me instead, its spindly limbs contorting with the movement. For some reason, in my dream state, it had an almost seductive pull that I couldn't resist. My feet moved almost on their own accord, drawn deeper into the forest until I reached what should have been an impossibility-a replica of Mountainview.

Except it was ravaged, a haunting semblance of the day the Crescent pack attacked. Glass windows were shattered, scattered papers and belongings blew along the sidewalk, and rogues roamed the empty streets, their snarls resonating through the air like demonic laughter.

would come out. And even as I took a few stumbling steps backwards, the rogues didn't snap their heads in my

up at the shadow entity, which had stopped just a few feet in front of me. Even though its face was

it?" I said, more to fill the silence than anything. "Why are

entity didn't

my attention away from the horrifying visage in front of me. I looked down to see blood oozing from where James had shot me all

had somehow reopened, and my leg trembled under the

over me, its form expanding, stretching taller as if it was feeding off my fear and agony. I mustered

"Go! Leave me alone!"

a strained, desperate whimper,

entity remained, unfazed and

mocking presence any longer, I looked up, my eyes meeting its formless

contorted, its voidlike face shifting to form an impossibly

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