in clusters, their voices hushed but urgent. The encounter in the fores

readable. Lucan and Valesia flanked him, their silence just as heavy. W

casting long shadows across the stone walls. A large wooden ta

ing forward with his elbows on the tabl

an how a nightmare walked into our t

oice. "It wasn't just a random a

le

darkened. "Wh

born of darkness, and you will serve it." The word

enched. "The hel

l said grimly. "And I don't think

ought. "If it's tied to you, then we need to f

ls doubled. No one leaves the pack alon

aling with something beyond our understanding, b

pected something like this would happen. D

an elder-someone who might have answe

sed into a thin li

ted. "Beyond t

t was forbidden territory, the land where the veil between realms was

s already made. "The

es are true, we won't just be facing creatures li

r this is, it's not stopping. If I have a chance to

breath. "Then we

ce, the weight of the de

e wind howled through the tre

ng that whatever lay beyond the Sha