The Veil of Darkness
Chapter 202: Inside... Or Outside?

Chapter 202: Inside... Or Outside?

Annalise stared at the huge wooden door in front of her. She had been standing there, unmoving, for a while and she had next to no clue exactly how she ended up on the topmost floor of the castle. She just wanted to get away from everyone for a while and somehow, her instincts took her to this particular place.

She raised one of her hands and placed it against the cold wood carved with several intricate designs most of which made no sense to her. She didn’t even plan to do it but her powers suddenly surfaced and a force of energy pushed out of her palm and stretched across the entire door.

Snatching her hand back in shock, she hurriedly stepped back a little bit while staring at her powers taking down the spell that was cast on the door before the door flew open and she was given entrance into the room on the other side.

Her attention turned away from the door and found her hand that was trembling slightly as Valerius’ words rang into her ears - ’How long are you planning running from all the truths that have started surrounding you, Annalise? The more you will try to avoid them, the more they will surround you, and if you continue like this, it won’t be long before you will start feeling suffocated.’

She hurriedly clenched her shaking fingers into a tight fist as her gaze returned to the door that was now wide open as her powers had taken down the ancient old spell that had been placed on it for thousands of years.

"Since you have opened it, why not enter and see exactly what sorts of secrets are hidden here that this was the most guarded place in this entire castle after the basement?" The sudden suggestion came from someone that Annalise was not expecting to see at the moment at all.

"What are you doing here?" She asked the little thing as it fluttered its soft feathery wings before turning its sharp eyes back toward the room. Despite the fact that they both were standing right in front of the open door, they could hardly see what was inside the room probably because of some other spell that was still working.

"I was actually expecting Master to summon me right after you realized that I wasn’t being honest with you, however, you did no such thing, so I decided to continue my training in the basement. The only reason I’m here right now is that I’m also interested in the secrets of this room." The little snow answered without even sparing her a single glance.

Annalise opened her mouth to speak but before she could have done that, the little furball left her behind and entered the room. "Hey! Where do you think you are going all alone like that?" She called behind the little snow lion but her familiar was long gone and seemed to have no intentions of coming out to respond to her.

Letting out a deep sigh, she turned her head left and right to look around while her mind was actually racing as she contemplated whether to enter the room or just leave and not end up finding out another secret that would start playing with her mind and life without any mercy.

After considering for a while, she finally turned around to leave but right as she took her first step away from the room, she heard a loud booming sound that made her stop in her tracks almost immediately.

She whipped her entire body around to look at the room but didn’t see anything as the spell was still keeping her from seeing anything on the other side. And then, there was another loud noise as if nothing crashed inside the room.

"Little snow?"

She called out to her familiar but there was no response and the link between her and the little creature didn’t seem to be working either. The situation only made her more frustrated and anxious. Despite her wanting to stay away from that freaking secretive room, she now no longer had that option considering she just couldn’t make herself leave her stupid familiar behind when she knew that something was off about the room.

She let out another deep sigh and almost cursed out loud when she heard another crashing-like sound that followed right after her sigh. She looked around, especially toward the stairs leading to the top floor, to see if any of her husbands or anyone else was coming her way after hearing all tge disturbance going on there but to her complete surprise, there was no one present as far as her enhanced vision could see.

It was weird to see no one heading to the top floor considering almost every person present in tge castle had enhanced hearing and they all could easily hear the loud crashing sounds even if they all were still somewhere outside the building. Other than that, her husbands could clearly feel that something was off through their shared bonds with her but she still saw no traces of any of the three dark lords.

A voice inside her head did start telling her that something was so off about tge entire ongoing thing but she didn’t have enough time to waste on thinking through the warning as her familiar was still locked inside the room.

Still, she did one smart thing as she took off her jade earrings and placed them on the floor right in front of the door before she moved forward to cross the threshold and enter the room. The earrings were left behind for anyone who would come searching for her and won’t be able to find any sort of her trace there.

As soon as she stepped through the threshold, she felt the energy of an ancient spell washing over her entire body before she was pushed inside the room with a light force and the door closed shut right after that, locking her inside... or maybe... outside!

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