'This can't be!'
Athan clenched his jaws as his face got livid from what happened before his eyes.
'No, this is just her hidden ploys. I knew they're alive.'
He raised his hand, about to punch the windows when he heard a subtle hoot sound that perked his ears.
He took a sharp turn, and it was a silhouette of an owl. 'Sentinels!'
However, from afar, he started to notice the pair of dark azure orbs that lit like wisps on one of the trees afar.
'No! This is a Winter Sentinel!' he breathed out of horror and conjured an arrow of crimson flame. It struck the owl's chest instead of its head as it tried to flew away from him.
Once the snow owl got reduced to ashes, he scoured around. His vision began to heighten, zooming in and out, checking every nook and cranny of the array of naked trunks nearby the lawn. Afterwhich, he arched his neck and gazed at the higher floors and its canopy.
