The Last Station Standing
Every few minutes, a rhythmic, haunting chant drifted over the field—the Cult of the Static was fan-outs, moving in a line, beating the ground with heavy staves.
"We can't stay here," Mina whispered, her eyes wide with Psychological Horror. "They’re closing the circle. I can hear them breathing."
"They aren't just breathing, Mina," David Vance said, his voice trembling as he gripped his driftwood staff. He stopped, looking through a gap in the stalks at the flickering torchlight in the distance. "I know that voice leading the chant. That’s not a priest. That’s Dr. Aris Thorne’s former head of Neurological-Mapping (the study and digital recreation of brain structures), Silas Vane."