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.

form stood on end when I

feeling this is a lullaby, she said aloud, and then she began to sing

and what

the shadows will come...» The moon

find you...» She had barely finished the last line when distant chimes

in my distraction, I failed to see the danger looming over

spectral shadow emerged from within the twisted trunk, looming over

out of there! I shouted,

of the creature were already too close

she

for her to unleash her powers, but she froze in

Celine acted faster.

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

screamed in terror, thrown onto the stones of the

and lunged at it, ready

strong

dark shadows of its body without injuring it, while its

began to emerge further from the tree, which seemed to

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