Bloodscript: Survival Game of the Reborn
It didn’t splash around my boots; it yielded like thick gel, then clung, seeping into denim, numbing my skin in a prickling tide.
It grabbed.
Not physically—no tentacles, no hands.
It grabbed with gravity.
Every inch deeper, I stepped, the harder it tugged, trying to pull me under, trying to convince me that sinking would be easier than pushing forward.
Pages dissolved around my thighs.
Their words unwrote themselves, letters peeling off into the black.
“That’s enough,” Corvin snarled.
He stepped after me without another word, ignoring the way the ghosts hissed, ignoring Selene’s sharp intake of breath.