Under the Veil I Rule

Chapter 225

Amara had just taken a couple of steps forward when she heard a sudden

crackling sound. Startled, she looked down to find a fissure opening right in front of her toes.

In that moment, her heart leapt into her throat. Without a second thought, she turned to run back. But it was too late. The path she had just walked on was also splitting open, revealing a dark, seemingly bottomless chasm, as if a giant hand from the depths was reaching up to pull her in.

Amara was so terrified she wanted to scream, but before she could make a sound, rocks began to tumble down. The ground gave way beneath her, and she plunged into the darkness.

Later, whenever Amara recalled that terrifying moment, her heart would still race from the memory of the danger she was in.

But right now, she couldn't afford to dwell on it. All she knew was that as she walked, the ground suddenly split open, and she fell through.

Then she landed with a painful thud on her backside, feeling like it was going to split in two, but the pain reassured her that she had landed safely and hadn't met the grim end she'd feared. Trying to get ahold of herself, she opened her eyes to assess her surroundings.

her was pitch black. She couldn't see a thing, except for a sliver of light from the crack above, about a foot wide and six to nine feet

and rubble. She knocked on the ground with her fist a couple of times, and the lack of a hollow echo reassured her

She had no idea where she was. Was it a basement that had been

darkness was so oppressive that she was terrified to

expansion of this "basement",

that if she reached out, something might bite her hand.

for her phone, relieved to find it hadn't shattered. She immediately thought

she glanced at the battery, her eyes widened in disbelief.

remembered sulking all day after an argument with Keith. Her mood had been so low that she hadn't bothered to do a thing, even charging

out on her own with a nearly dead phone. For a moment, Amara could have kicked

with an incoming call from Finnian, making her eyes