Chapter 0332 I Suddenly, as the sky darkened outside, I''saw a sh of something through the window that caught my eye and broke me out of my train of thought. I bolted over to the window to look out, and I caught a glimpse of what looked like Selena running across the road in a cloak. She was fast, like a bolt of lightning, and she looked over her shoulder as though she was making sure that the guards wouldn''t see her.


    Then, she disappeared into the forest in the blink of an eye.


    Something was going on here — I was sure of it. I didn’t know what exactly was happening, but I knew that something was wrong. And I couldn’t help but think that Selena and that strange girl who could have been her


    twin had something to do with it.


    I decided that Icouldn’t stay here.1 ~~ had to follow Selena; but she had - locked the door.


    Once again, I cursed under my breath as I paced the room, trying to think of a way to escape. My eyes fell on the window once again, and I tried to lift the window frame. It slid up easily; in Selena’s haste, she hadn’t blocked me from getting out this way. I quickly climbed out the window and used a Ibination of the vines that were climbing along the side of the mansion, an old and rickety trellis, and the corner of the building to make my way down.


    As soon as my feet hit the ground, I took off as fast as I could toward the direction that Selena left in. The guardsN?velDrama.Org (C) content.


    didn’t see me in the darkness. I could still faintly pick up Selena’s scent, and so I followed it. me I followed her trail carefully through the rapidly darkening woods. She had been in such a rush that she didn’t retract her scent, so it was easy to follow it. She had left an obvious trail of crushed leaves and broken bushes as well, so I quickly found where she had disappeared to.


    When I saw the little witch’s hut in the distance, with its yellow light spilling out from the closed window into the dark forest, I had to rack my brain to remember why this ce felt familiar.


    It was foggy and distant, but as I approached, I remembered that I had been here before. I had found Selena in here once, talking to the witch about some curse... But I couldn’t remember


    much of anything after that. Did the witch put a spell on me? That was the only logical exnation for this strange mind fog that I was in.


    I quietly approached the witch’s hut until I was close enough to hear voices.


    “Hold it still!” “I’m trying! It’s wriggling around too much. Just get it over with.” I could hear the sound of terrified bleating. It sounded like a sheep in distress. Amb, actually. It sounded too small and weak for an adult sheep.


    Then, I'' heard a strange sound, followed by silence.


    [couldn’t exin why I did what I did next. That tiny voice that had been


    echoing in the back of my mind took hold for a moment, and I knew that I there was something going on in that hut that needed to be stopped. k And so, I gritted my teeth and kicked down the door.


    Just as I suspected... Selena was sitting on the floor in the middle of a circle drawn with chalk. In herpy the bloodied body of amb, its throat slit.


    In front of her kneeled an older woman, a witch, who was smearing blood on Selena’s face.


    They both froze. Selena whipped around to look at me, her eyes wide and her face covered with blood that was painted on her skin in strange symbols.


    In the candlelight, she looked demonic.