Merius The Medium stood holding her green sceptre in her right hand in front of The Shrine Tree. Rach and her winged horse stood a few paces behind her amidst the circular clearing of The Shadow Village. The sun was beginning to warm up the morning and the drops of dew upon leaves of trees were now gradually drying up.
Merius removed the hood of her cloak that had been covering her head to expose the still-glowing Mark of The Shadow on her forehead.
"Salukaah..." She chanted the incantation to open The Shrine.
The trunk of the tree then vibrated gently before an entrance opened itself on the surface of the trunk to expose the green-lit Shrine inside.
"There is another one?" She said to herself after seeing the shinning emerald inside the shrine.
She then walked fast into the trunk
