Twenty Eight

"What are you talking about?" Malik asks.

"Once Leah made a deal with Illim, she had her eat the root of the black tree." Alvin

"Black tree?" Bisera looks at her husband, who shrugs.

"Shit." I hiss after I knew what Alvin meant. "The black tree is known as the Wishing Tree. I know what he's talking about. Although it is called a Wishing Tree, once you eat the root from it, it can grant one wish and come true, but there is a price. To grant a wish, the tree needs an equivalent exchange, which can be anything the wisher desires. It is also the source of the miasma, making you into ferals. My friends and I searched for it but could never find it."

"Ferals?" Questioned Vanessa.

"That's what I name them because they are much worse than a rogue," I explain. "I've been searching for the tree."

When Arlo and Saye told me what they had found out, the miasma was flowing because it leaked from a Black Tree, a tree created by a demon with his blood. Grows in the soil and demon blood makes it grow