Chapter 151
Feral Sentinels Obey Only Her
Chapter 152 The Monster’s Passage Appears
This was torture that built slowly, growing worse by the second.
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No wonder every Sentinel had worn such strange expressions after she touched their spirit animals before.
Lyra frowned and typed out a question.
“Does purification always feel like this, or is it only happening because of me? ”
Hadrien met her gaze. “I don’t know p>
He had heard other Sentinels talk about getting psychic guidance. Every single one described the experience as wonderful, like a deep massage for the mind.
Most sessions were only mild guidance, so their contamination levels never dropped by much.
When asked how it worked, they explained their Guide comforted them through their spirit animal.
Lyra had no spirit animal of her own. Her case could not be compared to theirs.
Lyra burned to find out the answer right now, but a glance told her lunch break was long over.
She needed to get back to her post immediately.
She stood, held out the helmet she had removed earlier to signal for him to put it back on, then nodded toward the door to show she was leaving.
Hadrien slipped the helmet into place silently. “Are you feeling all right? Do you need time to rest p>
Lyra felt perfectly fine. She shook her head once more to say she had to go.
She hurried over to the nightmare beast, stroked its face to bid it farewell, then pulled the door open and stepped outside.
Silence settled across the room.
Hadrien turned toward the nightmare beast.
A heartbeat later, the spirit animal vanished from sight.
Hadrien rose to his feet and unlocked the door behind his desk, leading into a small private lounge.
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He grabbed fresh clothes and walked into the bathing chamber.
Warm water washed over his body, and his mind grew hazy.
Unbidden, the memory of Lyra’s hands surfaced.
He had felt echoes of every touch when she stroked his spirit animal.
When her fingers brushed the nightmare beast’s muzzle and the tips of its ears, Hadrien sensed that warm, soft pressure drifting over his own cheeks and behind his ears.
Thankfully, this had only been a test, and the nightmare beast was massive.
He dared not imagine the humiliation he would suffer if Lyra handled his spirit animal the same way she touched the other spirit animals locked in the cells.
Now the running water mimicked that gentle caress, sliding inch by inch along his skin…
Hadrien drew in a sharp breath and squeezed his eyes shut.
Still, he pictured her concerned expression and tender movements as contaminants tore free from his mindscape.
Hadrien gritted his jaw quietly.
A Guide… really was a Sentinel’s addiction.
Lyra replayed Hadrien’s words as she walked back.
Sentinels really could endure an awful lot.
She had never experienced the pain of her brain nerves being torn apart, yet she could picture that unbearable, helpless torment clearly.
Every month, menstrual cramps felt like someone yanking violently at the tendons in her lower belly, pain so sharp she barely dared breathe.
It was an unavoidable physical struggle for every woman.
And a Guide’s mental guidance… maybe that counted as a Sentinel’s period.
When she returned to the cell block, Rhys looked over at her.
“Lunch break over p>
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Lyra blinked and nodded.
A low rumble echoed.
The orca let out a soft call and glided easily out through the window.
Lyra rubbed her palms over its smooth, enormous face.
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She opened the rest of the windows to let all the spirit animals roam free, then began gathering laundry to be washed.
Collecting clothes was simple; she only needed to roll a utility cart. The Sentinels or their spirit animals tossed their dirty garments inside voluntarily.
Lyra walked past each cell.
Her mind lingered on everything that had just happened, and she glanced upward toward the third floor.
When would she be allowed to touch those Sentinels?
Or how far did their contamination need to drop before they regained full consciousness?
She recalled that Hadrien’s nightmare beast possessed the ability to restrain other spirit animals.
She would need to ask Hadrien for assistance when she got the chance.
For now, she needed to keep Felix and Rook, the second–worst cases in Building Three, within a relatively safe range.
After dropping the laundry off at the laundry room, there was still time before the evening meal.
She brought the small pack of spirit animals to Felix’s cell door.
Unfortunately, he was in a deep sleep.
Rook was awake, but his fiery temper meant he would not cooperate easily.
Lyra had no choice but to head back down.
She watched the ferret and the others huddle together, working on a puzzle.
She pulled the crow into one arm and the dhole into the other, handling both spirit animals at
once.
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The crow was used to being held.
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The dhole remained uncomfortable. It sat rigidly pressed against her side, its eyes constantly scanning the surrounding spirit animals with suspicion.
After what had happened previously, it was convinced that everyone around wanted to harm it.
Whenever the spirit animals were released, fights usually broke out between a few of them.
Bored Sentinels rested their heads along the window, waiting to watch the only entertainment available.
Within this seemingly calm atmosphere, disaster struck without warning.
WOOO–WOOO–WOOO-
An alarm blared, echoing through every corridor of Black Spire.
Lyra jolted in shock.
She understood that this meant another psychic monster had appeared.
She stood quickly and gestured for every spirit animal to return to their Sentinels at once.
Heavy footsteps thundered outside as guards rushed to respond and regular staff evacuated.
Lyra prepared to flee with the crowd.
But the instant she pushed open the door, she froze solid.
The air directly in front of Building Three twisted and rippled.
The monster’s passage had opened right outside her doorway.
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