THE ATTACK
CHAPTER ELEVEN

It was dark enough for children to be asleep on a normal day, but the lights of the game stalls, snack booths and the ferris wheel especially blazed strongly enough to illuminate the entire fair, the darkness of the night could hardly be remembered. It was unbelievable how the lights, the smell of popcorn and cotton candy and the happy laughs and cheers from children could give her such a great night after having dealt with the revelations of the day. Dani was beginning to understand why the Greendale carnival was such a big deal. It was only something the people of Greendale got to experience once a year, and with all its incredible food, exciting rides and games and enchanting lights, it made sense that people always tried to make the best out of the night of the carnival and missed it so much once it ended. She'd been to many fairs in her previous cities, but those were nothing compared to this one. This fair made such a dull, small town seem so much bigger and exhilarating. It was an entirely alternate universe.

Dani noticed Nicholas to be even more enchanted than she was. Stood beside her, her arm linked in his, Nick gaped ahead, eyes seemingly glued onto the pink and blue flashing ferris wheel that rotated like the hands on a clock. She laughed at his enthrallment of the ride, "I guess we're going on that first, then? Roz said they'll meet us near the haunted house in around fifteen minutes." Taking Nick's silence as a yes to her question, Dani chuckled and tugged him along with her as she walked away from the entrance they had been standing at for five minutes, too dazzled by the thrilling night they were about to have.

"Why does it smell like the movie theatre we went when you first came here?" Nick's nose was scrunched up like he was appalled by the smell.

"It's popcorn. Don't be so dramatic." Dani laughed, pointing to the popcorn booth.

"It smells terrible."

"It smells like salt, Nick." She rolled her eyes. "And you ate like, half of my popcorn when we watched that movie."

"I know." He replaced the exaggerated look of disgust on his face with a cheeky smile. "I just wanted to see you smile."

"I'm okay, Nick. I swear," she assured, returning the smile as they continued to walk. "I'm not really thinking about any of it." It was true. The sharp, colorful lights and the clashing of a dozen different songs had done wonders for Dani; most, if not all, of the upsetting events of the day had already been wiped from her mind. The only thing she was thinking about was how she was going to have a great first date with a guy she realized she really, really liked, and also fun time with her other friends, Sabrina, Theo, Harvey, and Roz.

"Anyway, why do I get the feeling you've never been to a carnival before?"

"I, um... haven't." He scratched his head. Then Dani realized how insensitive that must have sounded; she knew that both Nick's parents had passed away and that he must have not had many opportunities to go to things like these. "It's okay," Nick chuckled, seeming to notice the distraught look on Dani's face. "It's not just that, though. The academy- I mean my school... is quite restricting anyways. Lots of, uh, homework."

"Well, I'm gonna make sure you don't miss out on anything fun ever again," Dani promised, grinning satisfied. "How about we start with the Ferris wheel?" Dani chuckled at how being oblivious to anything at the carnival was, Nick would just nod along with a childlike grin to anything she suggested.

Through the large crowds of kids and their parents or teenagers and their friends, Dani and Nick managed to find their way to the Ferris wheel. Like a toddler in a candy store, Nick's eyes were glued to the enormous ride that towered over them, every colour it illuminated reflecting onto his big, brown eyes. Dani handed two tokens to the man that stood by the gate of the Ferris wheel and then she motioned for Nick to follow her into a cabin that had just reached the bottom and a happy boy and girl, assumingly in a relationship, had exited. Dani went in first, Nick following suit and closing the small door behind them. The brunette girl smiled widely when the ferris wheel began to move and they were being moved backward and up. She felt like she was in a romance novel; almost every romance novel and even movie involved the boy and the girl getting on a ferris wheel together. Just the fact that she was here with Nick at such a beautiful event made her happy. It was like all the horrors of that day had never happened. The dark sky was filled with stars and just being so high up in the sky, despite her dislike toward heights, she felt like she was in a completely different universe. One without death or pain or lies. A world like that only existed in movies, though, and if she couldn't have such a peaceful world of health and happiness, she was happy she at least had Nicholas with her to ease her pains and worries even despite the insanity she had dragged him into.

When a warm hand rested on Dani's shoulder, she glanced at the boy who stared at her with comforting eyes. "Hey... I thought we agreed not to think about what happened until tomorrow." His eyes stared fixedly into Dani's, eyebrows knitted together.. "First thing in the morning we can look more into things. I'll stay up all night with you if it means getting you answers. But for now, don't be upset, okay?"

"I'm not upset." She gave him a tender smile.

"Then what are you thinking about?"

"You." She shrugged, staring down at her hands in her lap. "How great you are and how you're always just... there when I need someone."

"I'll always be there for you, Daniella." His right hand raised to her cold, rosy cheek, gently shifting her face in his direction. "Whatever you need, I'm here." As Dani's eyes met Nicholas' intense gaze, she felt time stop. With those deep, brown eyes of his that seemed to hold an indescribable story piercing into hers, Dani was more convinced than she was about anything else that he could see, hear and feel every single infinitesimal part of her heart, mind and soul. Could see, hear and feel the entirety of her and who she was and how she felt. Could sense the real her. The one without the wit and sarcasm, without the front.

And when he leaned forward, blocking the carnival lights that shone from his window in the cabin, that was when Dani felt that every single thing around them had washed away. That they had the entire universe to themselves, and falling like the stars, all the time and space was theirs. His lips when they met Dani's were like a warm, all-consuming embrace. With both of Nick's hands now on either side of Dani's face as their synchronized lips danced, she felt her tense body loosening Although the softness and warmth of his lips released a swarm of butterflies and erupting fireworks in Dani's stomach, they felt like leaves at the pull of the strong wind. It felt everlasting, it felt safe.

When Dani turned her attention away from the window she was looking out of, she couldn't help the huge grin that appeared on her face upon seeing Nick's parted lips and wide eyes as he absorbed the beauty of everything. It was quite adorable seeing a tall, muscular sixteen-year-old guy so openly intrigued by something simple and supposedly childish. She couldn't blame him though; no matter how many times she went to a carnival, she never seemed to get bored. She could stay hours and hours on end and still wish that the night would never come to a close, even if her legs were killing her or she could barely keep her eyes open.

"Why isn't it going around anymore?" When the Ferris wheel halted, Nick snapped his head to face Dani with a frown.

"Because our turn is over." Dani laughed at the look of utter disappointment on Nick's clueless face. She leaned over Nick to push the door open and waited for him to climb out of the tight cabin before she exited herself. "If you want, we can come back for another round after we meet with the others, okay?"

Nicholas nodded, showing a toothy grin as he slung his arm over Dani's shoulder and they trotted down the three steps to leave the Ferris wheel's platform. "So where to now? I'd like to know if this so-called 'haunted house' is really haunted." He air quoted 'haunted house' with narrow, skeptical eyes, forcing laughter out of Dani at what she thought was Nick just being goofy again.

"I think that's the haunted house." Dani pointed at the small house covered in black cloth and cheap, but attention-catching decorations. A large banner made up of lights blinked the words "CREEP SHOW" in yellow and surrounding it were images of ogres, witches that were spray painted onto the wooden walls. As they neared the haunted house, Dani noticed the statue of a brown-purple goblin with neon green eyes that stood in front of the entrance of the house. Just the sight of the childish statue lessened her rising worries that the haunted house would remind her too much of the previous events of the day. Her eyes continued to linger around the exterior of the badly-done haunted house but she regretted it when her attention landed on the doorway; past the door of the haunted house, it was pitch black. She could hear distant screams of people from inside the house and was starting to wonder whether its child-friendly exterior looks were only the way they were to deceive. "Let's wait for the others to come before going in." She forced her eyes away from the entrance of the haunted house and faced Nick who nodded in agreement.

"Hold on... are you scared?" When Nick asked the question, Dani mentally groaned at how much of a tell-tale her face was. "There's no reason to be; all of this is completely inaccurate anyway." Nick motioned toward the monster decorations.

"How would you even know that?" She laughed, shaking her head at how random the boy could be.

"I don't! I was just... guessing."

Dani chuckled and leaned into Nick's side, glancing at her watch before scanning around to see if her friends were nearby. She was genuinely looking forward to having fun with everyone, but deep down she sort of hoped that Sabrina, Roz, Harvey and Theo would take their time to arrive. Any day, a haunted house would have been fun, but with the image of the hideous supposed demon still fresh in her mind despite all the distractions of the night, she didn't exactly know if going into a haunted house now was the greatest idea. She just wished she could be like Nick and gotten over it so quickly. How did Nick get over it so quickly, though?

"Over there." Nick nodded his head toward the group of four that made their way towards them with waves and smiles. "Great, Harry is here." Nick's tone lowered into one of irritation at the sight of the other boy.

"Play nice, okay?" Dani patted his chest before pulling away from his side and making her way to her friends. Embracing each of them individually, she said her hello's.

"Can I speak with Sabrina for a second?" Nick requested. His tone of voice, the way his head was inclined slightly and he would not draw his piercing, knowing eyes from Sabrina, and how sudden and random his request to speak with her made whatever he wanted to say to the blonde indispensable.

"Uh... yeah, sure, Nick. What's wrong?" Sabrina frowned like Dani, also seeming to notice the boy's strange behavior.

As he and Sabrina began to walk away, Nick's eyes flickered to Dani and then away so quickly that Dani wasn't even sure it had happened. Why was he acting so unusual? Dani couldn't tear her eyes off of the two. What were they talking about?

"We just got here and the first thing she wants to do is the haunted house. No cotton candy, no game booths- not until we go to the haunted house," Roz stated with a laugh, pointing at Sabrina when the four remaining teenagers gathered in a circle.

"Dani doesn't seem that into it," Theo joked, but Dani's was too invested in trying to comprehend what Sabrina and Nick were talking about– why Nick kept glancing at her and why from looking at his lips and trying to make out what he was saying, it seemed like they were saying her name. Could they be talking about what happened today? "Dani?"

"Huh?" She found it hard to draw her eyes away from the two of them. When she managed to look back at the four, she was surprised to see them all staring at her expectantly, eyebrows furrowed in worry. "Yeah... I'm so excited." She barely even knew what she was saying, too caught off guard and confused by what was going on.

"Are you okay, Dani? You don't look too good..." Harvey said, his frowning face identical to everyone else's.

"Just what a girl wants to hear." Dani tried to play everything off like she was fine and forced a laugh that only she knew was half-hearted, the image of the black puff of paralyzing nothingness returned to the front of her brain at the thought that that's what Nick and Sabrina may have been talking about. When Sabrina and Nicholas started making their way toward them, Roz gave Sabrina a questioning look to which the blonde replied with, "I'll tell you later" in what was supposed to be a whisper but Dani could hear loud and clear. Her suspicions were raised even more now but she tried her best to push them away and enjoy the night with her friends. They all started walking to the short line of people queuing to enter the haunted house.

"We don't have to go in if you don't want to, Daniella. The two of us can just wait out here for the others, maybe get some of the cotton candy stuff everyone seems to like," Nick said, pretending like he hadn't been acting strange and secretive just a minute ago.

"No, I'm okay," Dani insisted with a curt nod. They were at the front of the line now and after handing their tickets, they began walking into the darkness of the haunted house. She was surprised by how subtle the beginning parts of the haunted house were. At the end of the hall was a light that allowed some faculty of sight for everyone to see where they were going, and not a single person dressed in a creepy costume or pop-ups of gargoyles or monsters could be seen. "This isn't so bad," Dani whispered, her hand on Nick's arm as her guide while they followed Sabrina throughout the pitch-black maze.

"Just wait for it," Sabrina said with an excitement that Dani found quite alarming.

They continued to shuffle through the tight space, getting hit in the face by pieces of messy white cloth that were supposed to look like cobwebs. When they made a turn to the left, the first thing they were greeted with was an execrable face that was painted green with a misshapen raven's nose stuck on popping out of a hiding place in the wall. Her hair was lustreless and covered in a tall, pointy hat. Even in the dark, Dani could make out her predatory eyes, like the calculating eyes of a snake or the pitiless eyes of a spider. Her voice was gravelly and jeering as she screamed, "all hell will break loose tonight!" Her appearance or voice wasn't frightening. She looked just like any witch off a halloween movie, television series holiday special or decoration at a kid's party. It was just the fact that she had appeared unexpectedly that startled some of the teenagers in the group.

Nick squeezed Dani's shoulders when she flinched. "What a pathetic excuse of a witch." He was the only one that seemed unimpressed by the first scare of the haunted house.

"It gets better. You know 'Brina wouldn't bring us into a haunted house that's not actually scary, so just be patient. You'll jump at some point," Theo declared, so sure of his answer.

"I doubt that."

"You guys talking so much is kind of ruining the vibe of this place!" Roz hissed, hushing everyone into silence. Dani would have rathered they all kept talking; nothing good ever came out of quietness. All it did was give her mind the freedom to stress her out, to gather all the things that bothered and upset her and push them right to the front of her head so it's all she thinks about. The darkness of the place already reminded her of the darkness of the creature her father and brother had summoned then exorcized, so being stuck in a dark house that was also quiet when pretend monsters weren't jumping out at them didn't exactly ease Dani.

With her hand tracing along the wooden wall on her right side of her to maintain a sense of where she was walking, Dani made an effort to keep up with everyone as they started to ascend slowly up a flight of stairs. She gasped when a hand grabbed hers after they got off the stairs and started walking deeper into the second floor. With wide eyes, she ripped her hand away from the wall after the unexpected touch.

"It was just one of those bad actors on the other side," Nick reassured and picked up the hand that had been touched to hold it in his.

"Yeah, I know." Dani nodded. She didn't even look at Nick, eyes too stuck on the blankness ahead of them. Even though she knew the demon was gone and the event had happened hours ago, she still felt as though the smokey, black figure could whoosh passed her any second. The thrill of people in costumes jumping out at you and the fun of screaming with your friends was something Dani used to enjoy. But after the occurence of the afternoon, any second that she was alone or in the darkness, she'd subconsciously be reminded of the creature and the fact that her own father and brother were involved with it. As they continued to move forward, she glanced at the wall that her hand had been trailing along, the hairs on the back of her neck raising when she saw a faint glow from a hole in the wall. She squinted to get a better look at it, making out two small, round orbs that could have been flashlights but looked like irises staring Dani down. Then, with a blink, they were gone. Dani couldn't help but think back to when she'd been walking with Nick and had seen yellow glowing eyes staring at her that were almost identical to these.

"Was that part of the haunted house?" she asked cautiously, glancing at her friends before turning back to the wall.

"What?" Theo asked. None of them showed very much interest and just continued walking.

"Nevermind." Dani sighed, running a hand over her face and rolling her tense shoulders back. Of course it was a feature of the haunted house. She hated that she couldn't stop being so paranoid. But then she heard a growl– one that was too clear and natural for Dani to assume that a person on the other side of the wall made it. "You guys heard that though, right?"

"This is a haunted house, Dani. You're supposed to see and hear weird things." Roz laughed.

"I think Dani's just had a long day today, guys." Sabrina sympathized, rubbing Dani's back with an apologetic smile on her face. Now there was no reason for Dani not to think that Nick had told her about the woods and now what was bugging her was. Why would Nick tell Sabrina?

"It's probably going to end soon, okay?" Nick said quietly enough for only Dani to hear as he squeezed her shoulders with both his hands. "Anyway, what we saw today is over. We saw your family get rid of it, didn't we?"

"Yeah, I guess." Dani nodded, taking in everything Nick was saying even despite her uncertainties toward how he still didn't seem the slightest bit bothered by the fact that they had seen a demon just a few hours ago. "I swear I'm not usually like this."

"I know." Nick squeezed her shoulder.

"I'm just tr-" She was cut off when her back crashed against the cold, hard wooden wall as something slammed into her with such a force that she felt all the oxygen being knocked out of her lungs. Though her eyes were shut tightly as slid down the wall to her knees in pain from the impact, she could feel a menacing figure towering over her. It wasn't touching her, but still, it's strong, bitter smelling breathing that came wafting onto her weight down heavily on her, making Dani's body tremble in terror, even though she couldn't see it. She didn't want to see it. It was going to be like the demon in the woods all over again, except this time it wanted prey.

"Amalia..." Nick spoke, almost like he was addressing whatever it was that was hovering over Dani with it's beastly-odour.

"Nick, I thought you said you already dealt with her the first time she tried to get near Dani!" Sabrina hissed. "Dani, don't move, okay?"

Finding it too difficult to even let out a full breath, all Dani could do was slowly peel her eyes open. Her eyes filled with tears when she saw what stood before her, the disgusting bitter smell of its open mouth stinging her eyes. She wanted to scream, to run away from the huge, hairy beast that stood in front of her like an intimidating building that was about to collapse over her. It's big, stained fangs stuck out from both top and bottom jaw and Dani truly feared what those sharp teeth could do to her. It didn't howl or snarl; it didn't need to. Its slitted, paralyzing eyes were enough to make Dani's entire body go numb. The glowing yellowness of its irises bored into Dani's in a way that wouldn't let her look away. Like if she broke the contact, only the worst could happen– assuming that this wasn't already the worst that could happen. It looked like a wolf but Dani knew enough to know that there weren't any wolves in Greendale or any towns around Greendale. This was far worse than a wolf. Had this been a movie, Dani would have laughed from her seat in the theatre at how an enormous, terrifying beast such as this one was wearing human clothes that were definitely too big for it. But this was real, it was so, very real and the way its exhales tickled Dani's goosebump-covered skin convinced her of that. And instead of laughing quietly with her friends from a seat in the movie theatre, Dani was curled up against the wall, more terrified than she had ever been before.

"What the hell is that thing?!" Harvey called from behind Nick and Sabrina. He, Theo and Roz all fearfully attached themselves to the wall behind them but Nick and Sabrina were only inches away from the bulky creature.

"My familiar." Nick's voice was low and shaky. "Daniella, just hold on. We're going to get you out of this, okay?"

"Do you have some sort of spell or something?" Roz yelled out in a panic.

Everyone's raised voices combined with the terror of what was happening made Dani's heartbeat increase so much to the point that it was all she could hear. She squeezed her eyes shut as tight as she could to avoid looking at the beast that, with every second that passed, would lessen the space there was left between them. When Dani's eyes were closed, though, images of the demon from earlier would flash in her head, followed by images of this terrifying beast tearing her head off with its malicious teeth.

"Magnus est Dominus, diei et noctis, praesidio ei apud omnis vestra viribus!"

Although she could no longer feel the warm breath of the creature lacing over her skin, Dani couldn't pull her face out from being buried in her knees that she hugged tightly– so tightly that it only made her breaths shallower– to her chest. The monstrous creature with its devilish eyes and enormous claws were so vivid in her mind that she could still hear its throaty breath on and still its daunting figure shadowing over her even despite her friends' calls and yells for her to run. This had to be a dream, she thought. But deep down she knew that never had there ever been a novel or movie where someone who thought and hoped they were dreaming was actually dreaming.

"Dani!" She was pulled out of her shock when a pair of hands fixed onto her shoulders and lifted her from the ground. In a panic, her head shot in different directions all across the room to try to grasp the situation. Nick was behind her, hands gripped onto her shoulders as he tried to pull her away. Roz, Theo and Harvey stood guarded behind Sabrina who– Dani gasped when her eyes landed on the blonde. With her scattered attention now undivided, her heart caught in her throat at the sight of the blonde. Her eyes were white, like her irises and pupils had disappeared. Dani wanted to turn away, to run from the nightmare that seemed to be repeating itself– first a demon in the woods and now an even more frightening, malicious creature invading what was supposed to be a peaceful night. But with her feet rooted to the ground, she couldn't move, she couldn't look away. She couldn't stop her eyes from trailing upward from the plain, white eyes that shouldn't have been anywhere but a horror movie to the raised hand of Sabrina Spellman. Sabrina's palm was faced up, and right above her hand, floating in the air like it hung on a strong string, was the beast. The scene was too unreal for Dani to believe that a very large, well-painted picture was in front of her.

"Dani, look at me!" Nicholas stood firmly in front of Dani. She gasped and clasped her hand onto her chest, not having realized that she was holding her breath. It was like looking in Nick's eyes allowed her to breathe again. "Dani, you have to snap out of it, okay? You have to get out of here."

"Fast, Nick!" The voice couldn't have belonged to such a small, sweet-voiced girl like Sabrina. It was deep and projected– it was a voice that Dani would have expected belonged to a monster, to the demon or the hairy beast. Not the innocent Spellman girl. But when Dani looked over Nick's shoulder, it was Sabrina who was speaking. Her hand was trembling rapidly as though she was lifting an invisible crate filled with the pieces of a sofa. "I can't hold on much longer." As if on cue, Sabrina's raised arm started lowering. Even the support of her other hand didn't seem to help.

"What's happening?" Alica cried, finally finding the words and power to speak, but the shaking of her body and the trembling of her lips only continued to get worse.

"I'll explain everything later. I promise." Another promise for him to break, was Dani's only clear thought. "Get her out of here. I need to help Sabrina." Nick's instructions were quickly followed by Harvey, Theo and Rozalind who rushed toward Dani. In the midst of their attempt to drag the frozen girl away, though, a loud crash sounded, sending everyone stumbling backward as the house tremor like an earthquake had just hit.

After regaining a bit of balance despite her wobbly legs, Dani turned around, eyes widening when she saw Sabrina lying on the floor unconscious. But when Dani's eyes landed on those golden, reptile-like eyes, she shuddered. This time, the werewolf snarled, its eyes glowing with rage and fangs seeming even bigger than before. Dani felt bile rise up her throat, she felt her mind and heart being dominated by an amount of fear she had never experienced before. It took every bit of her will and what was left of her strength to even remain standing, as if, for a minute, she tried to take a proper breath or let the huge lump in her throat have it's way and allow the tears from her eyes to fall freely, her drained, exhausted body would be lying limply on the floor.

The creature continued to near Dani. Its movements toward her were slow but tormenting, torturous. The kind of slow that whispered into Dani's ear, "you're going to feel every second of this."

Dani, eyes too blurred by tears and ears too dominated by the sound of her heart thumping against her chest, hadn't noticed Nicholas standing in front of her with his arms sprawled out protectively. He was facing the beast. He was talking to it. What scared Dani even more, was that Nick didn't seem the slightest bit frightened– at least, not so much that he was frozen in terror like Dani was. The werewolf only growled at Nick, like it was trying to tell him something, but it didn't make an effort to walk toward him. It didn't want to hurt Nick. It didn't want to hurt any of them, Dani realized. It wanted to hurt her.

"Amalia, please," Nick begged, his arms still spread out like a shield for the mortified girl, "don't do this."

The beast raised one gnarled, clawed paw and the only thing Dani could feel was complete and utter terror. She looked into the beast's eyes and saw pure death and darkness. Instead of ending the two of them, it flung Nicholas away, sending him crashing into a wall with a loud bang. Through the whole thing, it's eyes were on Dani. It stepped forward. Dani stepped back. And then, again, the creature took another step toward the helpless girl. And Dani shifted backward, only to be met with a wall. And so she was cornered, the tall, towering wolf being the only thing visible to her red-rimmed eyes. One of its large, hairy paw, the size of her head, raised once again and neared her Dani's face. She closed her eyes as its long nail trailed down her cheek, leaving a painful mark. The tears she shed through closed eyes only made the opened, bloody wound sting even more as the saltiness found its way into the long cut. She whimpered as the creature drew its hand further down her face to her neck. When its rough-padded paw wrapped itself around Dani's neck, her body wracked with sobs. She gagged when it squeezed her throat, bile traveling up her esophagus. But then its grip on her neck loosened and Dani saw blood seeping through the beast's tight shirt. Her weak legs couldn't keep her up as the beast dropped her to the floor as it tripped backward. With both hands, Dani reached at her aching neck, trying to catch her breath.

The scene before her was both horrifying and somewhat relieving. Lifelessly on the floor lay the monster with a pole pierced through its chest. And standing next to it looking down was Nick, eyes glimmering with tears as he dropped to the floor. Slumped over the werewolf's dead body, he wept. Too awestruck and struggling to recompose herself, Dani couldn't do anything but gape at the scene. Her body still trembling and terrified, small sobs still running passed her lips, she used the wall behind her to help her to her sore, throbbing feet.

"Dani," Nick croaked, brown eyes missing that twinkle that could never go unnoticed. The way he looked at her with his lips quivering and his broken eyes making a usually sarcastic and confident person look so broken and helpless. His hands were shaking on the blood-covered monster that had meant so much to him, but not more than Dani meant to him. The endless tears that rolled down his dusty face sent a jab of pain into Dani's already aching chest. When she took no action to move toward him, Nick let out a choked sob, looking at her in even more pain.

Her heart begged her as much as Nick was begging her to go to him. To hug him and to be there for him. He had killed a loved one for her! But her overriding brain told her that more than anything, she wanted to– she had to run. To run away from this haunted house of terror, from the liars who surrounded her– two of which were also apparently monsters like the demon and the werewolf– she thought were her friends.

So, she ran.

_____ ♔_____

→ author's note

this was a really long chapter, i know, but it's a really important one so i hope you enjoyed it! i'm so excited to finally be getting into more of the action-packed part of the story.

"magnus est dominus, diei et noctis, praesidio ei apud omnis vestra virbus!" is something i just made up myself with the help of google translate and it roughly translates into "great lord of day and night, protect us with all your might!". i actually very much enjoy making up these latin spells haha

let me know what you think of the chapter! votes, comments and follows are always appreciated.