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Chapter 94: The Trap

Author: Manie write
last update publish date: 2026-07-12 22:49:37

Riven's Pov

I stopped.

The formation stopped with me, the whole group going still in under a second, the trained response of people who had learned to trust exactly this kind of warning from exactly this source. Nobody asked why. Nobody moved forward. They just stopped and waited and watched the space in front of us.

I looked at the ground ahead.

I looked at it the way I looked at anything I suspected had been prepared for me, slowly, letting my eyes find the things that were not quite right in
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