Chapter 125
Emilia's POV
I opened my eyes to a silence that was so thick and heavy it seemed to be everywhere at once. The air was cold, but it wasn't just the weather that made it so. It was a silence that made more of an impression than any sound. My heart was beating fast, and my breath got stuck in my throat. A memory of a nightmare was there in my mind, but I couldn't keep it long enough to figure out what it meant.
Yet, the sound was what caught my attention.
Scratching.
I turned to look around the room as soon as I heard the noise. Eira.
I froze.
She was lying in bed, her hands moving over the walls as if she were painting, but there was only blood in her hand. The walls were covered in long, twisting red marks that looked like strange symbols, but they were not like any I re
