The Binding
Because it wasn’t just him, something else was pulling me too—something familiar, but not the same.
The scent of blood hit me before the sight of it did. Eirik surges forward, but I throw an arm out and stop him.
“Wait—” I whisper.
We step into the ravine together, the world feeling muffled around me, like we’d passed through some invisible curtain of silence. Nothing moves. No birds, no wind. One the steady drip of water from a moss covered root.
And then—him.
Elias.
Crouching near a collapsed tree, half-shifted, his body shaking and smeared with dried blood. Runes circle the area, flickering weakly like a dying heartbeat. And just behind him, nestled in the earth like a seed waiting to blo
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