CHAPTER 89

MILA

While Mila also deduced what Rah had with Arthur, but she didn’t wait. The moment she reached the end of the passage, she grabbed her gear – her mask, gloves and collar to cover her skin – and ran down to meet the oracle.

But he was not there.

There was a sentry though in the shape of another old man, but the oracle, Osho, was not there.

Mila reached out and touched the stump of the tree, and though she could feel that the tree was trying to tell her something, she could not understand. She looked up at its leaves, but they were too high for her to reach. Unsure of what to do, she raised her hand and tried to bring down a few leaves by magic, but it seemed like in the vicinity of the tree, her magic didn’t work.

This surprised Mila. Panting out of excitement, she tried to rip open a portal to her chambers upstairs, but she couldn’t. She tried to summon water, she couldn’t. She tried to move the air, she couldn’t.

She stepped a little further away from the tree, and yet her