Chapter 79

Natalia:

Blake kept his arm around me as the witches guided us back to the room that we were staying in.

The fact that more than half of us were dead was not something that I missed, and considering that we all saw that, I knew that things were going to be a lot more challenging.

Everyone was going to strive to reach the top, and if anything, I knew that neither one of them would care about the other. The elves proved to us that they didn’t care about each other when they started pushing one another to be able to get toward the door to live.

“You two seemed to catch the spotlight.” Valeria said, crossing her arms over her chest as she looked at both Blake and I. I looked at the woman who raised an eyebrow, waiting for me to say otherwise. She didn’t understand that this didn’t come without a cost. It was painful and scary, but we both knew that it was either we survived or we died, there was no other way around it, and neither one of us wanted to risk losing the other. Blake and I kn