CHAPTER DXCXIV

(HOWLING MEMORIES)

THE gate is open, initiated by the darkness that came from the holder that recently woken. Valerie’s doubts over Pauleen are still lingering. With her guard up and prepared for anything that might happen.

Pauleen draws a sinister smile on her face, and a bit mocking Valerie with her words.

“You may be a commandment, but I am one of the directions. You are under the direct command of the Mistress of time while I am under the Supreme one. So, it is just fair if that so-called security of yours should be put towards the real enemy. Am I right, Valerie?”

Pauleen’s mocking and superiority complex are innate to the darkness that she is. But it is not something that Valerie is fond of.

“What did you say?”

Instead, her mind ticks with the red flag that she rather wanted to vent out right towards the direction and face the consequence later.

“So, you aren’t just a bit of a hold-up, but a deaf one.”

With Pauleen giggling along with