The Cursed
Their howls were both warning and lament.
She pressed her palms firmly over her ears, trying to muffle the savage chorus, but the sound vibrated through her bones. They didn’t own dogs. No one in the neighboring huts did either. Yet the barking grew louder, more insistent, as though the pack had claimed their yard as its hunting ground. The beasts snarled and snapped, their voices overlapping in a frenzied symphony of alarm and fury.
Twenty agonizing minutes crawled by. Eloise counted each one in the dark, heartbeat thudding in her throat, sleep now an impossible dream. The noise refused to fade. If anything, it intensified, as if the dogs were growing more desperate—or more enraged.
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