Kai, Mei, and Elmyra dashed toward the red, glowing beam.
"Hurry!" shouted Elmyra, her eyes gleaming in the last rays of the setting sun.
The sun was slowly sinking below the horizon, painting the sky in fiery orange.
"We must reach it before sunset!" Elmyra urged, trying to motivate both herself and the others.
"I can't go any faster…" Kai panted.
Mei was silent, but she too felt her strength slowly slipping away.
"Come on! We're close!" Elmyra cried.
After a few moments, they arrived in front of the source of light. Before them stood an old, ruined building, its side completely open.
Kai, Mei, and Elmyra hid in the bushes and watched as Vorenhart sat in front of a bloody symbol surrounded by lit candles. He sat cross-legged, a diary resting in his lap.
Vorenhart looked up at the sky and saw the sun had fully set. He opened the diary and began the incantation.
"I open words that do not belong to humans.
I unlock the tongue that—"
