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Chapter 274

Author: Ifywrites
last update Last Updated: 2025-03-16 21:22:15

ASTRID

I can’t move. My legs feel like they’ve turned to stone, but my whole body is shaking.

Celia’s on the floor, gasping, choking on my blood, her hands clawing at her throat. Her eyes are wide, wild. Blood is spilling from her mouth, her nose, her ears, God, her eyes too.

I stumble back, my heart hammering.

“What…what’s happening?” My voice cracks, but Ariel just watches with this twisted grin. Like she planned this. Like she knew.

Celia screams, her body writhing, twisting in ways that don’t make sense. Her bones snap, loud and sickening, like branches breaking under heavy weight. Her arms contort, bending in the wrong direction. Her skin stretches, growing impossibly thin, almost translucent like something inside is trying to rip free.

She shrieks, the sound splitting through the air like a knife, raw and desperate. Her fingers claw at her own skin, raking deep, bloody lines down her face, like she’s trying to tear herself apart from the inside. Her body convulses violently, sla
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