Chapter 191: The Truth, Now Revealed

Tara’s POV

As thing often happened these days, the next moments came swift and all at once.

Victor and I had just unbound from each other when the dead body of the gatekeeper, nestled with its blood on the ground beneath our feet, began to disintegrate into the air. When it did, the well moved closer to us, as though it, too, had sensed a change in the world.

And then, all at once, a brilliant light shot from the moon above us, staring straight down like a beam, like it had been called upon, called forth, demanded to pay attention to the lesser world of earth and soil and worms, and Victor and I were shot back to the ground.

When our eyes opened, the well was gone, and Sidus stood before us.