Wildwood: The veins of the earth
The light behind them dimmed until it was nothing but a distant pulse—like a dying heartbeat echoing through ancient stone.
The tunnel before them sloped downward into the earth, the walls carved with unfamiliar script—part Yanuwah, part something older. Each glyph shimmered faintly when passed, as if responding to Clara’s touch, or the key Elias held. The deeper they went, the more the air changed. It was no longer stale but humid, heavy with the scent of moss, wet stone, and something sweet and metallic—sap, maybe, or blood that remembered sunlight.
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