Forbidden Under the Blood Moon
We followed the narrow tunnel single file, torchlight throwing long shadows across walls scarred with old claw marks, marks that looked older than any war I had ever heard stories about, and I felt every instinct I owned screaming that we were walking into something meant to be found only when it was already too late to matter.
The passage opened into a wider chamber, and Ronan's torch caught on something that made every one of us freeze at once, the flame trembling slightly in his suddenly still hand.
A makeshift camp. Blankets, folded with a precision that felt almost mocking given the chaos of everything they represented. Supplies stacked with careful, deliberate order, enough to last sev