Lunar Lake
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Runes were scratched into the floor, dark and crooked, like they’d been carved by a shaking hand.
Inside, candles burned in a rough circle. A half-finished summoning. And a trail leading out the back. “She ran,” one of my hunters muttered.
“Or she wants us to think she did,” I said. Either way, we followed.
We followed the trail out of the farmhouse, through a stretch of land no one had touched since Jaxson rose to power. The trees here were dead things stripped of bark, clawed as if something had tried to climb out of them.