For a few heartbeats after Remus vanished—
No one moved.
Everyone who saw it happen stared in utter disbelief.
One moment, Remus was there—alive, talking, breathing.
The next—
He was gone.
No body.
No blood.
No trace.
The girl who had looked so harmless had not even left a bone behind.
Then Camilla snapped.
"Remus!!"
She moved in a blur.
Her scythe materialised in her hands as she lunged toward the girl, eyes blazing with fury. Shadowy energy coiled around the curved blade as she swung it down with killing intent.
The girl only smiled.
The same shadow from before poured out of her body like thick smoke, rising and wrapping around Camilla before the scythe could even land.
In the span of a blink—
Camilla was gone too.
Her attack vanished like it had never existed.
It was as if nothing in this place could touch that shadow.
"Camilla!" Kaelith cried out, taking a step forward, pain and rage filling her eyes.
Alex grabbed her wrist.
