Staring at the cross pained her eyes and she looked away. At the back of the library stood a stone altar, and hanging above it was a life-size gilded crucifix. Porfiry had told her that this room had been built in the Dark Ages, and it had originally been used as a crypt. From up here she could see the entire chamber with its dozens of towering book stacks. Mira jumped to the top of the next stack, skidding across its dusty surface and knocking over some moldy boxes that had been stored there. With a frustrated bark Sabrewulf attacked the lower part of the bookcase she was on, threatening to tip the whole thing over. The skeletal flesh-eating beasts-when controlled by The Coven-were effective and terrifying predators. A small army of wendigoes would do nicely right now. She could have called Porfiry and asked for help. She wished she hadn’t thrown away her communication device so rashly. “I don’t have enough elixir to fight all three,” she thought, clenching her fists inside their gauntlets. He and his companion, the warrior Thunder, would find the hidden entrance to this library soon enough…and then Mira would be trapped down here. Something was walking around in the ballroom above. Mira leapt to the top of the next stack where she sat hunched like an angry cat.Īll of a sudden the chamber’s ceiling shook, and grit rained down from above, dusting her head and shoulders. Sabrewulf hurled himself into the lower shelves, smashing the oak planks and sending books flying. But Mira leapt aside at the last second, scrambling up one of the chamber’s massive fifteen-foot-tall bookcase stacks as if she was scaling a ladder. He attacked without warning, lunging low and grasping for her legs. He knew why she had broken into his secret subterranean library. Sabrewulf let forth a feral howl, but the look in his eyes-darting from Mira to the relic and back again-was clearly human. Mira slowly backed away from the werewolf, positioning herself between the snarling beast and the ancient tome encased in glass on its wooden stand. The Three Stories Mira's Chapter This chapter continues from the end of Ch.
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