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I barely manage to stifle a scream of terror but let out a ragged breath that reverberates through the corridor.
Something just moved the curtain!
Hold your breath. Hold your breath.
How could someone come this way and I didn't hear them move? Are they levitating or something?
I can't go back any farther, compressed between the wall and an impassive Virgin. If someone draws the curtain, I'll be discovered.
Please, let him go on his way. Make him...
You would have to be pretty desperate to say a prayer that has no chance of being heard!
I don't even have time to finish my sentence when a shiver goes through me. Or rather, my stiff, who collapses lifeless through me.
Damn, he doesn't look good...
“Ember!” I call out to him, in a rather indiscreet whispered shout.
How can he understand that I'm talking to him? He doesn't even know his name!
“The ghost!”
And if not, does anyone have a mouth-to-mouth or cardiac massage method for spectra? What’s happening to him?
“Ember. Your name is Ember Crow,” I stammer, hoping my words will reach him despite his apparent unconsciousness.
He gradually comes to and emits a grunt of discomfort.
“Are you all right?”
“Wonderful!” he scoffs in a quavering voice. “We have to leave now.”
“We have to stay!” I protest a little too loudly. “I got the confirmation we came for, Ember. You've been tricked! I don't know why, but the members of this order are trying to make you disappear.”
“Ember...”
A strange gleam crosses his pupils, as if the mere mention of his name is enough to revive a part of his memory.
“Do you remember?”
“I remember the name, but I can't quite associate it with myself.”
I imagine that amnesia is hard to live with and must, at times, have an aftertaste of schizophrenia.
“And that's not all. Not only is your body not deteriorating as it should, but it looks like you have the means to resuscitate!”
He writhes before me, tested by a spell that has no effect on me. If he can't move, how can we find his remains and bring him back to life?
“I'll take you back to the tunnel. I'll investigate on my own and come back for you when I've found something.”
“Believ... It's too dangerous.”
“How do you intend to proceed? You're not going to drag yourself through the corridors. You're going to...”
What, in fact? Technically, he's already dead...
“I refuse to let you suffer when there's another option. Just stay there.”
