Riley’s POVThe fall was chaos.Loose dirt. Shattered roots. Flying stone. My shoulder slammed into something hard, then I was tumbling, scraping, choking. Someone crashed into me mid-fall. The sound was swallowed by the roar of collapsing earth.Then I hit the bottom.Pain exploded through my back and side.For a second, I could only lie there gasping, with dust filling my mouth and nose.“Fuck, OK…that wasn’t too bad…” Olivia choked not too far away from me.Yeah, my back hurt as well. But it was just a fall. We all survived. Better than I thought.I pushed myself up on shaking arms and looked around.Above us, the hole we’d fallen through was a jagged circle of moonlight.The cave was vast and deep. There was a disgusting smell in the air—rot, musk, blood, and something sour enough to turn my stomach.Then, from somewhere deep in the cave, came the sound that made every hair on my body rise—A slow scrape of claws across stone.Then something slid out of the dark.Olivia screamed f
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