Chapter 69

Royal's POV

"Elysia? Please stop this, you are scaring me," I begged, but my pleas fell on deaf ears as Elysia remained trapped in her trance, her body seemingly disconnected from the world around her.

The air grew heavy with unsettling energy, and an icy chill crept up my spine. I reached out to touch her trembling shoulder, desperately trying to ground her back to reality.

"Elysia, please!" I implored, my voice laced with a mixture of concern and fear. "Come back to me. Snap out of it! Come back to me, please."

Her head tilted slowly, unnaturally, as if controlled by an unseen force. Her lips moved, whispering words that seemed foreign and ancient, resonating with power and danger. The hairs on the back of my neck stood on end, and a feeling of impending danger washed over me.

And then, in an instant, her eyes refocused, the whiteness dissipating like a passing storm cloud. Elysia gasped for breath, her chest rising and falling rapidly as though she had just emerged from a nightmar