Novel & Cerita Are You Ready For Vivification

Stronger. This time, the cracks did not spread outward. They opened downward. Like a lid being lifted. Evelyn’s breath became unstable. “Lucien… what happens if it fully wakes up?” Silence from him. Then very softly: “…then everything above becomes irrelevant.” Her eyes widened. “That means… humanity… vampires… everything?” Lucien did not deny it. The silence said enough. Evelyn tightened her grip on Hallowed Reaver. Her hands were shaking, but she did not lower it.

“Focus, guys! The prophecy was about Lucifer. He’s back—and at full power.” It’s like the air’s been punched out of me. I literally struggle to breathe. “What?” I croak. “Yeah, it’s a total mind fuck, isn’t it?” Vidar mutters. “So what do you want us to do? Get the supernatural council together to start making plans? Are we headed to the Underworld?” I ask, my brain already turning over logistics.

“Consider it done.” He paused, his smile turned almost serpentine “One more thing, Viviane.” “What?” “Leave your humanity at his door. I want to see him bruised, broken, begging for death by the time I walk in. Got it?” I felt the adrenaline thrumming in my veins, “Send me the details,” I said, “And I’ll show you I’m not just some stray in your world.” •───⋅☾ ☽⋅───•

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I press my fingers into his rotting flesh, leaving little indentations from the pressure. “Redi a terra mortuorum.” I stand, and we all step back to our places on the circle. “Awaken,” we chant together. “Awaken. Awaken!” I feel like I’m not quite on this plane of existence anymore. That I’m in the land between two worlds, stuck inside this blood-painted veil.

That’s when I had a sinking feeling and suspicion. The ritual… is to bring someone back from the dead. Is this who she’s trying to revive?

I turned away and finished my drink. Vivian's last words echoed: "Call me if you ever want to feel alive again." I told myself I wouldn't. I was lying.

And the moment Liviana uttered her agreement, she had wanted nothing more than to take it back. And then she remembered that feeling... and she knew that she would do anything to feel it again. “Are you ready?” Violet asks, a gentle touch on Livi’s shoulder as she nods towards the ride, pointing out how people were exiting. She tells her that they could wait for the next time, if she wasn’t ready. “So, are you?” No, she wanted to say. She wasn’t ready, and she would much rather wait if not go on at all. But that feeling, she could remember surging through her being with a purpose... It was freeing, powerful, and she wasn’t sure what it was about it, but it almost made her feel at peace.

"Liam?" She asks, appearing as if she'd just seen a ghost. Was I daydreaming, tranced, or experiencing hallucinations? I was unable to blink or move, and I felt completely numb. In all her splendor, Cara Rufus is right here in front of me. She is very different now. Her crimson bangs have given way for a burnt orange bob and she is now quite brawny as opposed to her former gangly appearance. Did she exercise? I wonder.

"This time, we can do better. We must do better. I can't tell you that I'm going to stop the healing. Without help, the Veil will keep getting worse, and that path will lead to certain death. But I'm here to tell you that awakening is coming, probably in the next six to twelve months, and we need to get ready. "How?" a reporter yelled. "How do you prepare for thousands of spontaneous power manifestations?"