LUNAR VEIL
But the beam caught only branches, nothing solid.
Her recorder was still running, her own ragged breath filling the tape. “Unidentified movement in surrounding forest. Approximate weight suggests… two hundred kilos? Possibly more. Gait irregular. Circling.”
The words steadied her for a moment—clinical, factual. But then the sound stopped.
The silence was worse.
Jonah lowered his rifle slightly, scanning. Evelyn’s light caught something on the bark of a nearby tree: fresh gouges, dripping sap, the cuts so deep they looked carved with blades.
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