The Shadow Knight
"If I don't return by sunrise, continue to the capital. Tell Lord Blackmoor's son what happened."
He stepped through the bone archway before she could object further. The darkness within closed around him like liquid night, cutting off all sound and sensation from the world outside. For a moment, he experienced perfect isolation, suspended in void without reference point or direction.
Then the bones began to sing.
Not with sound as living creatures would understand it, but with resonance that vibrated through whatever remained of his soul. Each named bone in the ossuary's construction contained not just identity but memory, experience, the accumulated weight of lives willingly surrendered to