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 when

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

the lullaby and what followed brought anything

come...» The moon began to hide

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

heads toward the sound, but in my distraction, I failed

within the twisted

of

the sharp claws of the creature were already too close

she was

to unleash her powers, but

Celine acted faster.

pained howl echoed as my sisters wolf was struck by the

Valeria screamed in terror, thrown onto the

and

strong far

dug into the dark shadows of its body without injuring it, while its attacks tore

from the tree, which seemed to be its deathly

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