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Chapter 207 - Chapter 207: The Den of The Priestess

Kieran's POV

I didn't know how long I'd been running, only that every step felt heavier than the last. Lorraine's weight in my arms wasn't the problem, I'd carry her for a thousand lifetimes if I had to. It was the silence around us. The unnatural, suffocating stillness of this land.… no one ever dared to come this close to the shunned priestess abode, even standing a mile close to her house was said to bring severe bad luck.

But finally, beyond the crooked trees and the fog that seemed determined to swallow everything whole, I saw it.

The shunned priestess' house.

Liandrin's house.

That is, if it could still be called a house.

A one-story structure hunched in the shadows, eaten alive by time and vines. The walls were chipped, the roof sagging, and weeds grew tall enough to swallow the front steps. The door, if one could call the half broken slab of wood a door, hung wide open. No sound. No movement. No hint of life.

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