~Samantha~
My hand was literally burning and Dominic wasn't letting go.
"Keep pressing!" Silas yelled over the sound of the entire basement shaking. "The circle's almost open!"
"Almost open?" I could barely see through the blinding light shooting out of the parchment. "What does that even mean?"
"It means don't move or we are back to square one!" Dominic's hand covered mine, his blood mixing with my blood on the ancient markings, and the whole thing just kept getting brighter and hotter.
The floor cracked beneath us. The huge kind that made you wonder if you were about to fall through into whatever nightmare existed below ancient wolf tombs.
Killian had backed up against the far wall, shielding his eyes. "You're going to bring the whole place down!"
"Then you better hope we finish before that happens!" I shouted back.
The light reached a peak that felt like staring directly into the sun, and then everything stopped.
The shaking. The noise. The light.
