The Mother who Fed the Dark
Sipho murmured, voice low and threading into their minds, “that one of you must be marked. One of you… will carry the Hunger forward. And one… may replace me if I falter.”
The eldest child trembled, clutching the scarred arm, voice shaking. “We… we don’t understand. You can’t just—”
“You already are part of it,” Sipho whispered, stepping closer. Shadows writhed at his fingertips, brushing the edges of the clearing, brushing the edges of their minds. “Every choice you make… every defiance… every hesitation… has consequences. Every scar, every pain, every surrender is remembered by the Hunger.”
The middle child stepped forward, chest heaving, fists clenched. “We will not be sacrificed! We will
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