Chapter 369

The Shadow Master tilted his head, amused. “Can’t you tell where he is?” he asked slyly. “I’m sure you can feel him or… perhaps you can’t, now that the Mother Tree is gone.”

“Just tell me where he is,” Prince Ron snapped. He didn't have time to play games. His throat burned with the memory of Talon turning to ash before his eyes, fear pressing down on him like a boulder. He couldn't help but think, what if he was already too late? What if Zedekiel was gone too? 

He shook his head, not even wanting to imagine it. No. His beloved couldn't die. 

The Shadow Master chuckled. “Since you insist… why don’t you look a little further to your left?”

Prince Ron whipped his head around immediately. At first, the haze of dust and fog blurred his vision but they cleared just as quick, and then, he saw it, a massive tree standing tall and majestic. How had he even missed it? It was impossibly tall, with a thick trunk and sweeping branches, shimmering with silver le