Chapter 0640

*S-Selena?"

My mental voice was only met with silence. For a moment, I thought that I had imagined my twin sister's presence. I had to. The shadow entity still stood there, its icy grip unrelenting around my wrist, its teeth almost seeming to click together in an eerie cacophony of noise.

The shadow entity chuckled, a high-pitched and grating sound like nails running across chalkboard. It leaned closer, and for the first time, I could... smell it.

I could smell its fetid breath, its sulfurous stink. It reeked like a corpse that had been laying in the sun for three days, like the worms and the carrion had begun picking it clean but gave up halfway through.

I gagged, trying to pull away, but it was no use. The shadow entity's grip remained firm, and its face was mere inches from mine now, mocking me, laughing that awful laugh.

*Nina, Nina," it whispered, its voice sending a shiver down my spine. "She doesn't recognize me. Her old friend, Friends from the beginning."

Swallowing, I closed my eyes. I was unable to move, unable to even scream, but I could at least try to block out the image of it. The amulet around my neck felt useless now against whatever this creature was, but it didn't matter anymore.

to kill me.

But then, something happened.

of nowhere, the shadow entity let out an ear-piercing scream and released its grip on me. I opened my eyes out of shock to see it standing in front of me, clawing

front of my eyes. And then, I watched in shock as it seemed to

pierced the stillness of the forest as darkness enveloped me,

"Nina? Nina!"

laying on the ground as a corpse like I had expected. Instead, I was still standing

with a concerned expression on his face. "Nina, what are you doing out here?" he asked as he approached. "I've been looking all over for you. You had me worried

I had ended up here eluded me, like fragments of a fading dream. I couldn't remember how I had wound up here, and panic

But then I remembered.

to visit my sister's grave. It had

That was all.

fully to face him. "I came to look at the stars," I said, tilting my head back to look up at the vibrant canvas of constellations

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