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Oryn looks to me with fear in his eyes. “Is it those dark creatures?”
I shake my head as a chill runs down my back. “They don’t make any sound.”
“What dark creatures?” Enver asks, making me frown.
“I’m guessing you didn’t have the pleasure of meeting them?” Oryn says to him.
Enver shakes his head, a small furrow forming between his brows.
“Then you were lucky,” Oryn replies, sharing a look with me.
They were before us. They had to have met them. Unless… unless someone was following us, followingmeto ensure I met them alone.
“What are they?” the female asks.
“You don’t want to know, trust me,” Oryn tells her with complete certainty.
She nods her head. “Then let’s get a move on before whatever else the guards have concocted comes to greet us.”
With a silent unanimous acknowledgment, we spread out while keeping watch for anything amiss.
“How are you feeling?” Oryn whispers to me.
“Drained but still capable.” I glance around as something sets my senses on alert.
“No one would dare question your competence after seeing you fight, let alone what you just did for everyone here.”
I find no obvious threat and give Oryn a small smile as we move on through the maze.
A few silent minutes pass before I hear a crackle and roar similar to that of a fire. Only when we move a little farther in do I spot the huge flames blocking one of the larger paths ahead.
“I bet our only way out of this is through that fire,” Oryn says. But if that’s all it is, a Caligo’s shadows would easily be able to snuff it out.
“We just have to move through it?” the white-haired female asks with a frown. “It seems too easy.”
An observation I have to agree with. It is too easy. There must be something?—
A pulse of energy blasts out around us, hitting us all at once and pushing us a step back.
I glance around to check the others, but no one is injured, and all are still standing in semi-states of confusion and shock.
“What was that?” Enver asks as he glances down at his hands, frowning as if feeling something amiss even though he doesn’t see it.
I reach down inside me, my stomach dropping when I feel it.
The cool, dark tendrils inside me are missing as if consumed and snuffed out. It must have been that blast of energy.
A bolt of panic jolts through me when I realize I’m completely powerless. But the warmth flares to life inside me, a violent slash of flames that reminds me of the strength I hold within.
“I can’t feel my shadows,” the white-haired female says as she reaches both hands out in front of her and watches in shock and despair as nothing happens.
Just like the bracelets blocked my Sidus abilities, the blast of energy has made this entire area a barrier against using our Caligo abilities.
“The trial is to test our abilities. Why take them from us?” she asks as everyone else attempts to use their abilities with no luck.
“Maybe we have to get them back?” Oryn says as he glances around.
“How? That blast could have gone on for miles,” Enver replies, and I glance down at the empty space on my wrists, drawn to them as a thought creeps into my mind.
