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 of her somehow materialized in my mind's eye. "Nina," she whispered, her eyes widening. "You finally

awoke with 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. Just me and an empty room and a sense of dread that couldn't

I

a few moments, they were both at my bedside. "What is it?" my mother asked frantically. "Are

shadow entity," I whispered, my voice shaking. "I... I think it might be

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

matter of less than an hour, the witch was at my side once more. It had felt like forever since I had last seen Elara, but she looked

as she

were standing 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

now, not when everything else

it?" I asked, looking

hair behind her ear. "The spirit is indeed

Moon Goddess Festival. I still wasn't entirely sure why; I had just felt calmer

"Not the talisman, no. Something

I breathed, whipping my head around to look at my dad once again. "It's

me, clearly

passed on some

nodded. "Less than a

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

sister, Selena... Despite everything, she was still with me, protecting me from this strange, dark spirit

how is she protecting me?"

could be a number of reasons," she explained.

out a small crystal to me. "This is a moonstone," she said. "Keep it on your person at all times;

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