Chapter 117 The Sacrifice

• (Lupita’s POV)
• One moment, Selene was beside me, talking about the Veil and its ways, the sacrifice it desires, and whispering a spell beneath her breath, and the next she was gone. The glow rose like a living sun, dragging her screaming form into its core until the sound fractured and vanished. The air around me turned cold, humming with a thousand echoes.
• I reached for her, but there was nothing left, no warmth, no shadow, no trace. Only the Veil pulses with an ancient, merciless rhythm.