CHAPTER 215 THE HIDDEN CHAMBER

Minerva I put away the magical pendant and beckoned Meredith to follow me to look around the temple again. My heart was racing in anxiety after the near-death experience with my mother. The backlash hadn't been expected. I wasn't sure I'd have had the heart to stop the spell if I'd known it would lash back at her in such a manner. No matter what happened, Eleanor was still the woman who'd given birth to and raised me. Yet, I couldn't stand by and watch her cast such a deadly spell. I believed a species could only evolve through nature and the gods. No one had the right to upset the balance by creating a spell that would create supernatural beings like the ones her mother had planned to develop. If they went out of control, "Are you alright?" Meredith asked. She was walking beside me and had probably read the worry on my face. No matter how I tried to hide it, it was glaring. I exhaled. "I'm okay." "If it's about Eleanor, then you shouldn't feel bad. We offered her opportunities,