--- 📖 Chapter 30: The Watcher Part 1: Marissa’s Confession Marissa looked paler than death. She handed me an old leather-bound book, shaking. “This isn’t witchcraft,” she whispered. “It’s older.” Inside were handwritten pages, inked in blood. Sketches of a tall, faceless being. Always watching. Never speaking. Marking its prey with a half-moon sigil. “The Watcher doesn’t punish witches,” she said. “It cleanses those who've cheated death.” Like me. Like Aurelia. Like Liam. --- 📖 Chapter 30: The Watcher Part 2: What It Wants Caleb refused to believe. Until the pipes groaned. The walls bled. And his phone screen cracked open with a single message: > “HE IS MINE.” We set a circle of salt and burned protective herbs. It did nothing. Liam’s drawings had changed. He

