Author POV
Alaric looked really messy right now, but he did not even care about himself at all as he walked while carrying Isabella's unconscious body inside his arms while passing in the middle of the forest.
Earlier, Alaric won the battle and managed to escape frome those killers, but he suffered a backlash from his own powers. Now, vines engraved under Alaric's neck had filled the area and glowed before dimming again, a sign that the curse, which had been suppressed by a vial of thousand-hundred petal flowers, was trying to resurface and entangle Alaric, tried to choke him to death and draining his life force.
The vines made Alaric's internal organs feel like they were being roasted alive, and he even struggled to see because his eye nerves were disturbed.
He needed to rest somewh
