Alpha Ocean ✔

26.5 Regan

Naya's P.O.V.
Present. 

"I have no contact with him, I wear a talisman myself to keep him away, I don't know how."

I turned away, ignoring her useless cries. Ocean commanded his men to carry on getting the Talismans out from the castle. He will come when he feels the veil getting thinner then, after all, he's a hellhound. I entered the thick woods, using the torch light as my guide I looked for an anomaly in the ground.

"I can see better in the dark, tell me what you're looking for." He took me by my hand and tugged me with him. I kept the flashlight still.

"A flat ground in the middle of unruly grass." We walked parallel to the castle instead of following the narrow path that was once clear of over grown shrubbery.

"Flat ground? No one's been here in centuries, where would you find flat ground?" He was shaking. I could tell he was angry for trusting Lea for years. I brushed my thumb across the back of hand, trying to soothe him. The clouds moved away brightening the area and the light broke through the trees and shooting diagonal straight lines right on the flat ground. Like pointing arrows.

"There." We picked up our pace and stopped right next to the edge of the wide rectangular void.

"What now- DAMNIT." He tried to walk into the rectangle but his feet bashed against an invisible barrier. "Okay what the fuck is that.?" I dropped to my knees next to rectangle. I remembered Elaria circling the tomb with a witches ladder.

Regan was half Nymph and half Fae. I knew she was a Fae because of her wings but she knew how to hide her Nymph side. Granted I didn't know about her life outside these walls but hybrids were sociopaths, perfect chameleons. A nymph was mischievous by nature but a hybrid was much crazier.

"What are you looking for?" He started doing the same and with claws he managed to dig in faster pace than mine.

"A witch's ladder. It's charmed braided chord with a lot feathers, bones and charms-" He wouldn't know what charms were in witches' term because he wasn't there. "They are herbs, from mistletoe to valerian but they probably look like dry twigs now."

"What's the reason for it?"

"Each knot was created with a spell by ten powerful witches. Elaria, she was the leader of the Coven in Tiscan, told me that this spell keeps a supernatural body intact." I had a lot of explaining to do after we got out of this predicament. Considering plan A with Lea didn't work, I needed plan B. One where the spirits were forced to thin the veil so Hayden could find us.

"Whose soul?"

Just when I was about to answer him, an eerie form of green light sown from near the moon. Everyone was astounded as I was. I didn't know my human form had any command over the Spirits.

That's when the air around us began to thicken, white foggy mists started to rise from the ground. The damn half hellhound felt the presence of the spirits but this time, I had the upper hand. I had what he wanted.

I had Regan.

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"Keep digging. This is who he wants. He thinks Regan is dead and that her soul is on the other side. He kills us every life because the Spirits takes our soul and keep us in a limbo unlike every other supernatural creature who dies and goes to the other side."

"The Darkling is half Hellhound therefore he can survive in the limbo and take that route to the purgatory to find Regan's soul. But I made a deal with the spirits to keep her soul separate and when I needed them to, to release her soul back on earth. I needed Regan and Hayden to be at their most vulnerable to catch them.