This change was really subtle, but it was still surprising!
"I'll keep feeding it for a few days and see what happens." Verinia stopped pouring blood into the bottle and straightened up to cork it. "By that time, I should be able to find an entry for this thing in some book."
"Could this be a creature from the old world?" Eva couldn't help but stroke her chin in thought. "I've never heard of something like this, and even though it acts like a parasite, those silver balls are truly strange."
Verinia didn't answer her speculation, but her mind had already drifted in that direction long ago.
This thing had entered her little sister's body when she had been lost in the Emerald Forest. The Emerald Forest was known as an especially cursed place to begin with.
Magic was dead, or so everyone supposed, but the things that happened in that place were too mysterious. Moreover, the Emerald Forest was huge.
