Chapter 88

---- T'll go check the inscriptions, Valeria said as she started up the worn stone steps leading to the top of the hill.

Follow her, Celine.

Protect her at the slightest danger.

Celine nodded and climbed after her toward the site, which looked nothing like the previous Altars.

The clock was frozen, covered in ancient numbers and spheres indicating the lunar phases.

Moss and vines had overtaken it.

It seemed like part of the tree itself, surrounded by the gnarled knots of the bark.

I watched as Valeria traced her fingers over intertwined letters bordering the artifacts face.

Iglanced at the sky, where clouds were moving faster than normal.

Something was about to changeI could feel it.

The forest whispered warnings.

stood

then she began to sing in a sweet voice that exuded

and what followed brought anything but

moon began to

She had barely finished the

in my distraction,

emerged from within the twisted trunk, looming

out! Run, get out of

sharp claws of the creature were already

she

her to unleash her powers, but

Celine acted faster.

echoed as my sisters wolf was struck by the attack, pushing Valeria aside with

thrown onto the stones of

at the cursed specter and lunged at it,

strong far

the dark shadows of its body without injuring it,

further from the tree, which

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