A Night at Wildwood
Emily.
But not the Emily they had lost.
She stood in the ritual chamber, vines hanging like curtains around her. Her body was thinner, unnaturally elongated, as if stretched by invisible hands. Her eyes were twin voids, bleeding sap. And behind her… something shifted.
Not the forest.
Not Halloway’s ghosts.
Something older.
Something with wings made of bark and bone.
Devon hadn’t slept.
For the third night in a row, he found his hands raw and bloodied, black dirt under every fingernail. His sketchpad was full again, page after page of impossible things: circles of antlers, spiraling trees with screaming mouths, and a throne made of spines.
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