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CHAPTER 10
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The sun had barely dipped below the tree line when they started moving. The air turned cooler, sharper, full of resin and damp moss. Long shadows reached across the forest floor, swallowing their footprints as quickly as they made them.Lyra — that was what the older rogue had finally given as her name — led the way with sure, silent steps. Jude, the younger, followed close behind, his bow across his back but his fingers brushing the string every so often. Silas and Mara kept a few paces behind them, flanking Ava and Caleb. Rowan, as usual, brought up the rear with a muttered complaint about “midnight hikes.”Ava adjusted the strap of her pack, the dagger pressing like a hidden heartbeat against her thigh. Her palm ached beneath its bandage. The bond felt stronger at dusk; whispers stirred at the edge of her mind like wind through reeds.Silas caught her eye briefly. “Stay in the middle,” he murmured. “If anything happens, you drop and stay down. Understand?”She nodded, tucking a str
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A thin beam of dawn light slid through a gap in the shack’s roof, painting a pale stripe across the dusty floor. Outside, the creek murmured softly over stones, a sound so ordinary it felt strange after the Hollow’s constant hum. Birds were singing somewhere in the pines. The real world had returned, but the smell of ash still clung to their clothes.Silas sat on a low stool near the hearth, elbows on his knees, eyes fixed on Ava. He hadn’t slept. His whole body was tense, like a bowstring drawn but not released. Every so often his gaze flicked to her bandaged hand, then to her face, as if to confirm she was still breathing.Ava stirred, blinking herself awake. For a heartbeat she thought she was still in the Hollow. The shack’s runes glimmered faintly in the half-light, echoing her dream. She reached for the dagger out of habit, but it lay on the floor beside her, inert and dark.“You’re awake.” Silas’s voice was quiet, rough from disuse. “How do you feel?”She pushed herself upright
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The archway shimmered like a dying star, its silver edges fraying into ash. Beyond it, dawn bled pale pink across the real world’s sky, so close Ava could almost smell pine and wet earth instead of the Hollow’s scorched-iron stench. Yet every step seemed to stretch the distance, the path a living, twisting vein of black soil.Silas didn’t slow. His fur was slick with sweat and ash, his massive body quivering under Ava’s weight. She clutched the dagger to her chest, knuckles white, her cut palm throbbing with every heartbeat. Behind them the monolith’s roar rose again — not a sound but a low-frequency vibration rattling their teeth, a predator’s growl big enough to fill the world.“Caleb!” Mara’s voice cracked. “It’s shrinking!”“I know!” The mage stumbled, lips chalk-white, eyes fever-bright. He dragged his knife through the ground, muttering a half-choked chant. Each rune flickered out almost as soon as it appeared. “It’s fighting me!”The Hollow surged one last trick: voices floated
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The roar wasn’t just sound; it was force. It drove the breath from Ava’s lungs and bent the trees outward as if they were made of straw. The beast moved faster than something that size should have, a blur of bone and ash with claws like scythes. It hit the ground where they had been standing a heartbeat before, and the impact threw up a wall of hot dust.Silas slammed into Ava, knocking her sideways just as a claw raked the earth where she’d been. They tumbled together into the red moss. She rolled to her feet, coughing, dagger burning in her hand.Rowan darted left, sword flashing, drawing the monster’s gaze. He struck at its foreleg. The blade bit but didn’t cut — the limb rippled like smoke around steel, then reformed. The beast swung its head and snapped at him; only a desperate leap saved him.“Normal weapons won’t hold it!” Caleb shouted over the roar. He had already dropped to one knee, drawing frantic sigils in the ash. Sparks flared under his fingers, but the Hollow sucked th
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The sky above them was wrong.It wasn’t just dark; it was a dome of living black threaded with pulsing veins of red light, like blood moving through a heart. The trees around them were taller than any in the outside world, their trunks spiralling upward with no roots, their branches dangling like claws. The ground underfoot was soft and hot, as if it had been made from ash still cooling after a fire. With every step, a faint echo followed — a delayed version of their own movements.Ava tightened her grip on the dagger. Its pulse had steadied since they crossed the archway, but she felt it under her skin, like a second heartbeat. “This place…” she murmured. “It’s alive.”“It’s waiting,” Silas corrected. His eyes glowed faintly even in human form, scanning the shifting trees. “Don’t trust what you see. Don’t trust what you hear.”Caleb unrolled the map. He stared at it for a long time, then swore softly. The parchment was blank — no runes, no lines, just an empty sheet. “It’s gone,” he
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Dawn bled slowly through the trees, pale and cold. The air had the brittle stillness of glass about to crack. Ava cinched her coat tighter, the dagger hidden beneath its folds. Every step away from the lodge felt heavier, but also sharper, like she was finally walking toward the truth instead of running from it.The others moved with quiet efficiency. Mara walked point, her eyes flicking from tree to tree. Silas stayed just behind Ava, his presence a steady hum. Rowan limped but kept up, the fresh stitches pulling tight under his shirt. Caleb clutched the rolled-up map to his chest as though it were a lifeline.The forest shifted as they moved. Pines gave way to skeletal birch; the earth beneath their boots turned from loam to a grey ash-like dust. Birds didn’t sing here. Even the wind seemed to hold its breath. Ava felt a pressure behind her eyes, a faint ache that pulsed with the same rhythm as the dagger at her side.“How far?” she asked, her voice low.Caleb glanced at the map. “H
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