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    WE ARE ALIVE NARRATOR Even so, she passed it around her fragile neck and put on the relic.


    The dark stone trembled and glowed with greater intensity, as if sunlight was shining from within it.


    The wind howled through the ss door, mming it open and shut in rhythmic bursts.


    Lavi violently.


    ias white nightgown billowed Her hair lifted, fluttering as beams of light wrapped around her body.


    "T want to go to my parents! I want to go to my mom! Save my parents!" she screamed into the void with all her strength, and the intense light exploded, swallowing her small figure.


    The next second, there was no one left in the Dukes chamber.


    see "ELLIOT!" Katherine screamed as she watched the enormous, powerful lycan fall right in front of her.


    Dark blood stained the ground.


    Her hands trembled as she summoned her strongest spells, bolts of lightning crashing down relentlessly.


    But the natural elements barely harmed the dark energy surrounding them, ready to tear them apart and consume them whole.


    ---- They were only toying with them, like prey that had no chance of escaping their ws.


    "Why didnt you leave, Katherine...


    why?" "T won''t leave you, Elliot! I cant, I cant!" She threw herself over the werewolfs body as he struggled to rise again and again.


    Vorath roared in agony, his broken joints and nearly disced heart making every movement unbearable.


    The cold closed in around them like a prison, caging them.


    Katherine looked upshe couldnt even see a light anymore.


    Only ckness, only malice, and limbs stretching toward them.


    Howls echoed in the distance.


    Their friends were trying to do something, but they would onlye to die as well.


    Elliot shouted at them to run.


    Tears streamed down Katherines dirt-streaked face as she clung, to the beast that had fought endlessly to shield her.


    She closed her eyes, waiting for the end.


    In this world, they were nothing more than filth, paying for the sins of their ancestors.


    Lavinia, her poor Lavinia..


    "Mom!" In the midst of her agony, Katherine thought she was hallucinating when she heard her daughter''s voice.