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.

couldn't even really see her, but rather, I could feel her so profoundly that an image of her somehow materialized in my mind's eye. "Nina,"

in my father's mansion. There was no white light, no shadow entity, no dead sister. Just me and an empty

I

bedside. "What is it?" my mother asked

my voice shaking.

dawned on both of them. "I'll call the witch," my father

at my side once more. 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 my skin,

as she worked.

curse had already been exchanged, and

Not now, not when everything

it?" I asked,

sighed, straightening, and tucked a strand of long, dark hair behind her ear. "The spirit is indeed

been wearing it since the Moon Goddess Festival. I still wasn't entirely sure why; I had just felt

talisman, no. Something else," she said.

I breathed, whipping my head around to look at my dad once again. "It's her. She's the one who's been protecting

blinked at me, clearly confused. The witch,

on some time

nodded. "Less than a year

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

as I listened to the witch's words. My twin sister, Selena... Despite everything, she was still with me, protecting me from this strange, dark spirit that had latched onto

she protecting me?" I

for something. "There could be a number of reasons," she explained. "But most

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

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