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But when I focused on the path ahead, my gaze landed on an enormous castle atop a mountain, grand and majestic just as I’d imagined in my wildest dreams. Torches lit a windy path from an open gate toward the building. More dotted the structure, lighting up the place as if it were a birthday cake. Weren’t they bothered they’d attract these angry bears to their doorstep? I didn’t even know if these attackers were shifters or wildanimals.
We thundered onward. Behind me, bears closed in from both sides. I tensed and whipped the reins. “Faster.Faster.”
They were so close, I could make out their warped glares, their wildeyes.
We raced forward, the carriage jostling and jumping about. I held my breath as I burst through the iron gates. In that exact moment, a snap of energy rocked through me, lifting every hair on my body onend.
Magic!
The horses never stopped but galloped toward the castle, climbing a dark, windyroad.
I twisted around but found the bears hovering near the gate, which slowly closed on itsown.
The earlier energy still lingered on my skin, its sharpness biting into my flesh. This was no ordinary power… not at all, but something dark and using deathmagic.
I regretted everything about this assignment because I felt without a shadow of a doubt that the battle I’d just endured with the bears was child’s play compared to the storm brewing in the air around thecastle.
