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 tell. I couldn't even really see her, but rather, I could feel her so profoundly that an

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

Dad!" I

"What is it?" my mother asked frantically.

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

each other worriedly as realization dawned on both of them. "I'll call the witch," my father said without a moment

at my side once more. It had felt like forever since I had last seen

she murmured as she worked.

their faces. Words of our supposed generational curse had already been exchanged, and tensions were

have that again. Not now, not when everything else

it?" I

is indeed still attached to you," she said.

since the Moon Goddess Festival. I still wasn't entirely sure why; I had just felt calmer since that night, as

talisman, no. Something

head around to look at my dad once again. "It's her. She's the one who's

blinked at me, clearly confused.

passed on some time ago, correct?" she

"Less than a year

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

as I listened to the witch's words. My twin sister, Selena... Despite everything, she was still with

how is she

as she began rooting through her box of crystals, searching for something. "There could be a number of reasons," she explained.

"This is a moonstone," she said. "Keep it on your person at all times; don't lose

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