Chapter 245

Realizing that she'd spent too long skimming through books and had gotten very distracted from her main goal, which was finding the tunnel and finding her way home, she decided to call it quits with the Library for the meantime. A little light-headed from all the new information, Marisol stumbles out of the library, her mind swirling with the weight of the revelations she'd unearthed. The ominous prophecy and the mysteries of the concealed library had left her in a state of utter bewilderment. Her fingers tremble as she tries to look at her map again. She cautiously traverses the shadowy corridors of the hidden wing, the air still dense and foreboding, each step echoing a palpable tension. Her heartbeat drums in her ears, a frantic cadence of fear and urgency. Then, without warning, an immense force collides with her, throwing her clean across the hallway. The impact jarred through her body, sending shock waves of pain that reverberated through her ribs. A searing pain shoots through h