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.

head snapping up to see Isaiah and

expression was unreadable, his sharp silver eyes flickering to the parchment in front of me. Austin, on the

chair and sat next to me, glancing at the riddle

it. "It doesn't make

looking at a puzzle with

sat across from me, his gaze serious. "It's ment to be vague. If it was easy, someone else

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the Keystone by now."

feel any better. "I thought maybe breaking it down line

words," Isaiah finished for me, leaning back slightly in

hand. "Maybe its not supposed to

exhausted sigh. "Then

could force the riddle to

go through it again. First line-Whispers from the ancient Willow's

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shot him a dry look.

trying to lighten

him, his brows furrowing. "It could mean

place named after

slowly. "That's what I was thinking, but

part-'In a cavern's shadow

"There

suggested. "The Children of the Eclipse,

connection."

that thought. It made sense, but it

on the table. "And then there's 'By the moonlit lake, reflections guide."" He whistled. "That sounds poetic

guessed, my mind already trying to picture a

the water's surface.

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

down at the parchment. My

getting us

muttered. "There has to be

behind his head.

don't

I'm just saying

if the real answer isn't in the words, but in

frowned, considering his words. "Like

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