CHAPTER SEVENTY - BALANCE

THE LYCAN CITY. LUKKAR CASTLE

VALERIE

Despite it being dark and quiet the Sacred forests never exactly felt gloomy, the forest environment had a homely atmosphere like it was inviting you to stay in the forest and never leave. Maybe the homely feeling was why it was called the Sacred forest.

Reila sat in front of me in her meditation pose. She wasn’t doing much apart from breathing and periodically moving her eyes behind her eyelids.

I waited patiently, like a dog waiting for its owner to finish with the meat from a turkey lap so it could have the bone. I wanted to see the glows start and how beautiful it would be.

She sat motionless for a longer while before, like a slow breath of life, the multitude of tiny pores on her skin blinked with white light. The sight was breath taking, like she was a deity from a heavenly realm. It did not take long until the light from the pores of her skin became so bright her entire body now had an ethereal glow.

She opened her eyes, blinking twice