LOGINThe last barrier just fell.Those words sounded like a death sentence. For a moment, Zara simply stared at Kael praying he would explain something somehow instead, he kept looking north toward something only him seemed to understand.The horn sounded again. The sound was like it was rolled across the city and went directly into Zara's ears. Where they stood, the guards exchanged nervous glances and didn't say anything to each other."What barrier?" Zara finally asked.Kael looked at her, his expression didn't look frightening, he looked like he had resigned like he was expecting it."The barriers were never just protecting the Belmar territory." His voice was quiet."The north was built around them." Zara frowned."What does that mean?"Before Kael could answer her, footsteps approached them. Selene appeared moments later, she looked really exhausted that you could literally see the dark circles beneath her eyes. Her coat hung on her shoulders, it looked like it was going to fall off
The screams were coming from the eastern district.By the time Zara and the others reached the streets, everybody in the city were already panicking. People were pouring out of buildings, guards were everywhere looking in every direction.Someone had even knocked a lantern by mistake and it shattered on the ground across the road."What happened?" Zara shouted at a guard passing.The vampire barely slowed down."Someone came back!" The guard shouted walking as though he was almost running.That wasn't an answer, it only made her curiousity widened.Apparently everyone in the north had made a collective decision never to explain anything properly. They followed the crowd and went further, the thicker it became the sooner they reached a small square surrounded by stone buildings.Hundreds of people were already gathered there, nobody was shouting nor speaking aloud. The silence there was so much that you could hear the sound of a pin if it dropped to the ground.Everybody looked terrifi
Nobody moved, the figures remained standing in the distance silent and motionless, it was just there watching them.The mountain ridge spread between them and the city, but somehow Zara still felt like they had taken special attention to her and she felt weird.The scout beside them looked ready to faint. Honestly, she couldn't even blame him because she would have done the same if she were in his shoes."What are they?" Rynese asked, curiosity written all over his face.Nobody answered him, it wasn't because they didn't want to but there wasn't an answer to his question.Selene's face had gone pale again. At this point, Zara was beginning to think that it was becoming a habit for her, the vampire woman stared at the distant silhouettes."No."The word slipped out quietly."No, no, no..." She continued.Kael's eyes narrowed."You know what they are."It wasn't a question.Selene swallowed."They aren't supposed to be awake." She said still staring into space Zara felt a cold feeling s
The tower came back, that was so strange.Nobody spoke about it, it left them numb and shocked.Zara stared at Kael, waiting for him to say he was joking or something but he didn't instead Rynese looked between them and then laughed. A very short, nervous laughter."Okay."Nobody reacted."Right." He said and rubbed both hands over his face."It's either I've completely lost my mind, or we're all skipping over the fact that a whole building that disappeared came back again.""It's not the building that I'm worried about.," Valkyrie said quietly.Everybody turned to stare at her."What worries you then?" Zara asked.Valkyrie's expression changed."It's the fact that it came back."Silence settled over them because somehow this felt worst, the tower disappearing can always be explained but coming back..... Nahhh! Impossible. Nobody will believe that bull shit.The thought of it made Zara's skin crawl."What did the scout actually see?" she asked.Selene folded her arms."The tower."" I
The western tower had disappeared, this was not getting any better. Nobody said anything for a few seconds. The eastern tower had vanished only a few hours ago now another one was gone. What was really going on?Zara felt a knot tighten in her stomach, beside her, Kael looked really calm which was not a good sign at all. Selene rubbed a hand over her face and sighed."We need to go.""Go where?" Rynese asked looking worried."The council chamber, it is a place where people make decisions that are terrible and they call it leadership... Mtcheww." She sighed again.Rynese nodded thoughtfully.* * * * * * The council chamber was beneath the city, the further down they went, the colder it became.Ancient stone corridors were everywhere around them. They used torches to find their way through, this place was really old.It looked like something that had existed long before the people currently occupying it. Zara didn't like this place, her wolf didn't like it either.The farther they de
Nobody laughed about the information the guard has just given, it was meant to be funny because it didn't seem like it had actually happened but still, a small part of Zara had hoped the guard would suddenly admit he'd made a mistake or maybe he'd been tired or panicking. Just something you know, or maybe he lost his way.Instead, the young vampire looked like he was about to be sick."The entire tower?" Selene asked.Her voice was calm for the chaos that the guard was panicking about or perhaps she was trying not to look like she was actually panicking."Yes." The guard swallowed."It was there during the patrol change.""And then, what happened?""It just mysteriously disappeared."Rynese blinked."I'm sorry." He said raising a hand."We're totally not accepting that answer, how do you mean a building disappeared, like a whole building?"Nobody looked at him, he looked offended because why the hell were they ignoring him.Valkyrie turned to him."We heard you, okay?""Then why is no
For a while, nobody said anything.The map was still spread across the broken wooden table while the wind howled through the cracks in the ruined outpost.Zara stared at the symbol particularly at the crescent moon wrapped around a blade.The Belmars. She could feel the weight of the name already b
The weather was in between morning and midday, Zara couldn't exactly tell which it was but the wind was strong. At a point it was cold, and next the wind was almost blowing her off then the snow fell on tress.Then enough snow that Rynese could barely see Valyrie walking towards her, it was imposs
Lucian hadn't slept in three days the last he could remember, at some point he'd closed his eyes while sitting in a chair and apparently lost consciousness for about an hour, whether that counted as sleep or not was debatable. He could feel his head hurt, his shoulders too then his ribs. There was
Zara looked worried, she was probably losing her mind right now. Actually, Zara was losing her mind. Wisteria winced which was the worse part, how could she have left after promising never to disappear. She'd looked Zara directly in the eye and promised she wouldn't disappear no matter what, then







