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 on end

said aloud, and then she began to

and what followed

Juno, sleep now, or the shadows will come...» The moon began to hide behind the clouds

is not in the sky, the specters will find you...» She had barely finished the last line when distant chimes echoed from

but in my distraction, I failed to see

shadow emerged from within the twisted trunk, looming over

get out of

sharp claws of the creature were already too

thought she

unleash her powers,

Celine acted faster.

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

screamed in terror, thrown onto the

cursed specter and lunged at it, ready to

strong far

shadows of its body without injuring it,

from the tree, which seemed

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