Ashwyck Academy for the Damned
Every step echoed against the stone walls, each echo a drumbeat marking the approach of something ancient, cruel, and foolish.
Maldric crouched ahead, dark as the soil beneath us, his claws dripping shadow and ichor, body trembling. Weak. Too weak. I could feel the tremors in the air, the wavering pulse of his magic struggling to hold form. He knew it too, which is why his eyes, those luminescent, demonic orbs, were fixed on me with a mixture of hate and terrified anticipation.
“You shouldn’t have come,” he hissed, voice cracked like old leather. “You—this little girl—”
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