Chapter 56: Encoded Message Received
The clearing was too quiet—the kind of silence that only existed when something was about to happen.
Eren was sitting on a smooth stone, cleaning his fingers with a cloth, while Kaela paced in circles like a bored and irritable lioness.
Nyssa was huddled beside him, rocking slightly back and forth with her translucent body tinged in blue, as if trying to calm herself. Morwynn, elegant as ever, hung upside down on an invisible web between two trees, softly reciting:
""The night has come... and with it, the words that should never have been whispered." What a beautiful scene of decay, don’t you think?"
"Talking to yourself again, spider-lady" commented Kaela, snapping her fingers.
Morwynn ignored the comment with the grace of a lady from a forgotten century. Eren just sighed until he felt the slight chill in the air. The kind of sign that didn’t come from the system, nor from a monster—it came from someone who knew exactly where to touch to be noticed.
It was Nyssa who pointed out, softly:
"E-Eren... over there..."
A flickering light appeared among the branches. A small, shimmering winged being, floating with impossible precision. Its wings seemed made of living script, and its body of liquid glass where phrases danced. A living, enchanted creature—a message bearer.
"Don’t attack" said Eren, raising his hand before Kaela could bare her teeth. "This isn’t hostile."
"Looks fragile... but it smells like masked magic — murmured Kaela, eyes narrowed."
The creature landed in front of Eren and, without ceremony, dissolved into fragments of light and runes, which entered his fingers like living ink. Nyssa let out a timid squeak and shrank back. Kaela huffed. Morwynn merely whispered: