Surrender To Us, Our Luna (One Luna, Four Alphas) novel Chapter 374

Chapter 374: 374-A Murder Mission

Clementine:

"Wait, we are not going to tell the crusaders I am leaving?" I wondered.

The lurkers entered the basement.

"What for? Do you want them to panic? Or do you need moral support?" Ms. Lenora questioned.

Miss Rue had stayed quiet the entire time, tapping her fingertips on the table.

"What is the emergency?" I asked in bewilderment, watching Miss Rue’s hands and then turning to Ms. Lenora, who straightened her back and folded her arms across her chest.

"Because the storm will last for three days," she replied, "and this storm is not only here. It hits South, East, North, and West. I told you about it. It comes once every few years, four or five. Tomorrow is the last day, and something happens in the North on that day."

I stared at her in confusion. I noticed that her tone felt strange.

"There is a place in the North that appears only on the third day of the storm. It is a castle. It stays invisible for the rest of the time, but tomorrow, at midnight, it will appear, and once it does, we can reach the watch," she explained.

Mr. Rick slid the paper toward me once again, the one that I had already seen.

I remembered it was embedded in a wall, but now I realized that it was a wall somewhere in the castle.

It looked like an old castle, very dingy type, like from probably many years ago. But there were five identical watches.

"Why is there five?" I asked.

Ms. Lenora replied with a shrug.

"The wall holds five watches, but only one is real," she replied, "and if you choose the wrong one, the castle will shake," she explained. "It will not collapse immediately. You will have one more chance, only one. If you choose the wrong one the second chance, the castle will fall, and you will have to escape before it collapses on you."

"And if I fail both times, then?" I asked her.

"Then we wait for another four years," Mr. Rick grunted tiredly.

"Why do you even want it? What is there to go back in time?" I questioned.

"The rumor says that because there are some dangerous people in the North that would probably want it too," Ms. Lenora snapped, almost like she was upset that I was asking that question.

"Huh, so you are scared the criminals will get it, the same criminals that you have sent to the North," I remarked, pulling my arms over my chest and shaking my leg, watching their faces as they dulled.

"If you want to phrase it that way, fine, but you understand we cannot let that happen," Mr. Rick explained.

I rolled my eyes.

They then told me that since the North was hit with something, with a curse, and all the monsters started to form, there was a monster who was able to hide this castle.

The monster is long dead now, but the curse, the magic, stays, and it hides the castle.

"So you are going to the North tonight. Just get it and be back," Ms. Lenora mumbled.

I began to click my tongue.

"It will be tomorrow at midnight. Why do I have to go now?" I asked, almost laughing at them for taking me so soon.

"Because we do not know if you will be able to find it even. In order for you to even find the missing location, to follow the map, it will take some time," Mr. Rick explained.

I began to click my tongue once again.

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