The Omega Mated To The Four

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The library was eerily silent, the scent of old parchment and candle wax thick in the air. Rows upon rows of towering bookshelves loomed around me, the dim glow of enchanted lanterns casting flickering shadows across the ancient stone walls.

I sat at one of the long wooden tables, a single piece of parchment spread before me. The riddle.

I had written it down, but no matter how many times I read the words, I couldn't grasp its full meaning.

Whispers from the ancient Willow's boughs,

In a cavern's shadow where history allows.

By the moonlit lake, reflections guide,

Symbols hidden in ripples, where secrets abide.

Guardians of the night, statues stand tall,

Midnight echoes in the pack's sacred hall.

Within the ancient forest, the howls reveal,

A path to follow, a destiny to unseal.

At the mountaintop ruins where stars align,

Celestial convergence, a gateway to find.

Decipher these riddles, a cosmic quest,

To the Moonlit Nexus, where the Keystone rests.

I tapped my fingers against the wooden table, frustration creeping up my spine.

The words made sense on their own, but strung together like this, they were maddening.

Was it a set of instructions? A pron

I let out a slow, exhausted sigh. "WASTAFE

"Still trying to figure it out?"

Or just another layer of deception meant to throw us off?

it mean?" I muttered under my breath, my voice barely above a whisper.

my head snapping up to see Isaiah and Austin

was unreadable, his sharp silver eyes flickering to the parchment in front of me. Austin, on the other hand, looked smug as he strode toward the

this all morning, haven't you?" Austin pulled out a chair and

it. "It doesn't make sense." I

looking at a puzzle with half

walked over and sat across from me, his gaze serious. "It's ment

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the Keystone by now."

thought maybe breaking it down line by

for me,

on his hand. "Maybe its not supposed to be literal. Could

sigh. "Then we're even

fell between us as we stared at the parchment, as if sheer willpower could force the riddle to reveal its secrets. But the ink

silences, tapped his fingers against the wooden table. "Alright. Let's go

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dry

"Just trying

furrowing. "It could mean an actual willow tree...

named

slowly. "That's what I was thinking, but there are a lot of

cavern's shadow where history

asked, exasperated. "There

tied to our history?" Isaiah suggested. "The Children of the Eclipse, the Umbrakin,

connection."

thought. It made sense, but it still wasn't specific enough to be

the table. "And then there's 'By the moonlit lake, reflections guide."" He whistled. "That sounds poetic as hell, but what does it

visible under the full moon?" I guessed, my mind already trying to picture a

the water's surface.

that's the case, we won't know until we find the right

at the parchment. My

getting

missing something," I muttered. "There has to be a pattern we

back in his chair, arms crossed behind his head. "Or maybe it's just

"We don't have the luxury of thinking

his hands. "Itey, I'm just

What if the real answer isn't in

frowned, considering his words. "Like

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