My gaze immediately snapped towards the ground where the woman had dropped something. It was wrapped within a pitch-blue coloured cloak.
I moved cautiously before looking underneath it, my eyes widening immediately. The thing the woman had dropped was a skeleton. Its entire body was covered in cracks as if it would turn to dust at any moment, while the small patches of fresh flesh were proof enough that she had died recently.
I immediately understood why the woman had felt so weak. How could she infiltrate the academy so easily and what had she meant about time running out?
I didn't know exactly how it worked but from my understanding, that woman had somehow used the body of this poor girl as a medium to project herself here.
I quickly summoned my flames, willing them to latch onto the body before burning it to ashes since I didn't want to become the prime suspect in some useless murder investigation.
