Todos los capítulos de Dear Alpha, I’m Far Gone: Capítulo 111 - Capítulo 115

Calista's POVThe villages were burning when we arrived.Not with fire but with something worse. Something that made my skin crawl and my stomach turn. The air felt thick and wrong like breathing through wet cloth. Smoke rose in dark columns but it was not the gray smoke of normal flames. This smoke was black and oily and it moved with purpose. It twisted and reached like living fingers searching for something to grab."Stay close," Zevran said beside me. His hand found mine and squeezed. "Do not separate from the group."I nodded but my attention was on the village ahead. The houses stood intact. No structural damage. No signs of battle or invasion. But the silence was deafening. No voices. No movement. No life at all. Just that terrible thick air and the black smoke curling between buildings.Kaelen raised his hand and the soldiers stopped. We dismounted together and drew our weapons. The ground felt wrong under my feet. Too soft. Too warm. Like the earth itself was sick with whatev

Zevran's POVI carried Calista away from the crater before Kaelen could finish speaking.She protested weakly but I ignored her. My mind was racing. That thing down there was growing. Spreading. Consuming everything in its path. We had hours at most before it breached the fortress walls and spilled into the countryside. But I would not let Calista throw herself at it without a real plan. Would not watch her die because we were desperate and reckless."Zevran, put me down," she said against my chest. "We need to go back.""Not yet." I set her on her feet but kept my arms around her. She swayed and I steadied her. "We need to think. We need a strategy.""There is no time for strategy.""We make time." I looked past her to where Kaelen stood with the soldiers. "How long do we have before that thing breaks containment?""Hours," Kaelen said grimly. "Maybe less. It is growing exponentially. The more it consumes the faster it spreads.""Then we have hours to figure out how to kill it." I tu