Sylas sat on a fallen log in the middle of the clearing as if the night belonged to him.His ghouls had returned a while ago, dragging two deers by their horns. She'd watched them tear both deers to pieces while they struggled to escape. It felt strange, knowing that she could have been the one behind their teeth and claws. Esmeralda watched him through swollen eyes, wrists bound behind the chair, thighs slick with drying blood. The two ghouls remained chained to the trees on either side of her, silent as carved idols, their pale heads angled toward the scent of pain.He had moved on from questioning.That somehow terrified her more.An old leather phone book rested open across his knee, yellowed pages fluttering whenever the wind passed through the trees. He turned each page with unhurried precision, scanning names, addresses, old numbers no one sane still used.“What are you doing?” she croaked.He did not look up.“Research.”“That’s not an answer.”“It’s the only one you’re getti
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