Chapter 89: The ritual (3)
Alison led the four of them to a large empty building not far from the fortress.
"She’s inside - I can’t go in since apparently my aura disrupts the wards." She shrugged. "I’ll stay here until you’re finished though."
"You don’t have other work to do?" Isara raised an eyebrow.
"No, Maya offered to cover my duties for today."
"...and you let her?"
Alison snorted.
"She might be prone to ditching her job, but she can fulfill her assignments properly when she needs to." She pointed at the building. "Now go, from what Sylara told me you actually have quite a bit of set-up to do."
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The structure was completely gutted from all walls and rooms that weren’t needed structurally, leaving the place as a one large hall with a few support columns.
But it wasn’t even the weirdest part about the interior - that would be the plants.
Along all of the walls hundreds upon hundreds of vines grew from a myriad of differently sized and coloured pots - and all of them very moving.
Each and every one of them had its tip dipped in some sort of paint, and was scribbling furiously on the walls. Together they were creating some sort of mindbogglingly large enchantment, comprised of incredibly complex runes, most of which neither Calen nor Isara had every even seen.