Chapter 0756 Nina

I hadn't seen it in what felt like so long.

Its sharp white teeth gleamed in the darkness. Its hollow eyes, lidless and empty, seemed to be looking directly into my soul. It cocked its head first to the left, then to the right, then left and right again, over and over and over like a broken, crooked metronome.

"What do you want?"

The shadow entity didn't answer. It rarely did, now that I thought of it. It just... beckoned to me.

But when I followed it, it led me nowhere.

"I thought you were gone," I said, shaking my head. "I thought I was finally done with you."

The shadow entity just widened its toothy grin and continued to beckon.

This went on for what felt like an eternity. Maybe it was an eternity, even. Maybe whatever drugs the doctor had given me had actually killed me by accident instead of simply putting me to sleep, and this was my own personal hell.

Honestly, at this point, I wouldn't have been surprised.

But it was at some point during that eternity that it happened: the white light. It spread outwards, all around me, enveloping me like a soft, warm cocoon of light. It swallowed the void, and the shadow entity with it.

Furrowing my brow, I turned in all directions, looking for the source of the light. And for the first time ever, I finally saw it.

"Selena," I breathed.

but rather, I could feel her so profoundly that an image

a start to find myself still in my bed in my father's mansion. There was no white light, no shadow entity, no dead sister.

I

both at my bedside. "What is it?" my

entity," I whispered, my voice shaking. "I... I think it

both of

It had felt like forever since I had last seen Elara, but she looked just as ethereal as ever as she traced her crystals across

she murmured as she worked.

beside the bed with looks of worry on their faces. Words of our supposed generational curse had already been exchanged, and tensions were high. If the shadow entity had truly returned, then both

now, not when everything else was

it?" I

her ear. "The spirit is indeed still attached to you," she said. "But there is something

still wasn't entirely sure why; I had just felt calmer since that

witch shook her head. "Not the talisman, no. Something else," she said.

to look at my dad once again. "It's her. She's the

me, clearly confused. The witch,

on some time

than a

said, glancing at my father. "Especially since you were twins, as your father has informed me. A

a lump form in my throat as I listened to the witch's words. My twin sister, Selena... Despite everything, she was still

she protecting me?"

number of reasons," she explained. "But most importantly, you must know that

held out a small crystal to me. "This is a moonstone," she said. "Keep it on your

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