Chapter 105. The Mountain

The day passes like a blink, and it feels like time is sand in my fingertips that I can’t stop from filtering away no matter how hard I try. Clinging on with anxious determination, yet it slips right through. Like an awful countdown to something I don’t want but can’t run from, and I know this is inevitable, and everything before was leading us back to this moment.

To the mountain that was once our home, the man that started everything and the fight we have been avoiding to stay alive. Fate really did make sure that we had no choice but to come full circle, ready to battle and put things to rights in the oddest turn of events. The wars, the prophecy, the people involved in everything that came before… we are all convening in the place where it began. The mountain. The Santo Valley.

Jasper is returning to the place I watched him walk away from with my family a decade ago to avenge their death, whether I want him to or not. Everything is different from what it was on the d