Awake

Marion guided them through the path with careful steps as the ancient trees were not the only ones protecting the place. The terrifying voices of hungry beasts hidden in the shadows of the trees echoed in the silent forest.

"What are they?" Blaze couldn't help but ask. He hadn't heard about those creatures before, not even from his parents. They seemed to be different from the shadows or anything he had heard of.

"Lost souls," Marion said with a grave voice, then she looked at the pitiful creatures from the trees, "the alliance was not all good, but it was founded stepping on the lives of many innocent people and creatures, the ones they considered the weakest and less worthy."

"I had read about that," Blaze remembered the book Irina gave him in the library, he had read it many times for another clue, but there was not a lot that the author knew about the alliance, "they used the souls of the weakest clans as a sacrifice."