The Obsidian Covenant #1: The Rejected Mate's Ruin
She sat in the center of the falling debris, anchored, unmovable.
Guller scrambled to his hands and knees. He looked up toward the natural chimney that led to the surface.
The light filtering down wasn't the soft blue of the moss anymore.
It was red. Thick, viscous red, like fresh arterial blood.
The ground shook again—a long, rolling groan of tectonic plates grinding together under immense gravitational stress.
"It’s here," Guller whispered. His heart hammered against his ribs, painful and erratic. "God help us."
Neoma opened her eyes. They weren't violet anymore. They were black.