Pact of Blood
"I am not your cure!"
Before Dave could retaliate, the temperature plummeted to absolute zero.
A sound rattled the air—a sharp, piercing howl that was half-human, half-beast, echoing from the eastern ridge.
Before they could process it, a deep, guttural roar vibrated from beneath the earth, so powerful it cracked the stone ground beneath their boots.
It sounded like a massive, reptilian creature waking from a centuries-old slumber.
Shadows began to detach themselves from the trees, shifting and morphing into pale, aggressive silhouettes that rapidly circled them in the fog.