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Chapter 44: The Witchfire War

Penulis: Comfort Shettima
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Vireya's POV

Its mouth yawned like a beast in wait. No torches. Just silence and a suffocating air of doom. The very sight of it made something deep inside me recoil. My skin prickled. My heart beat slower, as if the darkness ahead were trying to steal the rhythm from my chest.

I swallowed hard. The Hollow wasn’t just a cave. It felt alive. And it hated me.

From the thick underbrush where we hid, I spotted two sentinels standing motionless at the cave entrance.

Their faces were completely covered by bone-masked hoods, their forms draped in ragged black robes. It was impossible to tell if they were male or female, if they were even werewolves at all.

They didn’t move, not once. Not even when the air shifted with death.

When night fell, Xareth moved like a whisper. He stepped forward, his black cloak merging with the darkness. His bow emerged in one fluid motion.

He pulled two arrows, and fired in perfect unison.

They struck, each piercing through the eye sockets of the guards and emb
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