Fated In Darkness
He could laugh all he wanted, but we both knew the truth: tomorrow, there was a very real chance neither of us would see another sunrise.
The journey stretched on, the tunnel winding, endless. My mind turned over what awaited us: Dragomir’s presence like a stormcloud, Adrian’s fury barely leashed, the fragile alliance we’d built. We were Strigoi, we weren’t supposed to unite like this. Yet here we were, chasing relics to put one of our own back to sleep.
By the time the air shifted and the tunnel opened up into a wider chamber, the faint gray of morning had deepened into the full pallor of dawn aboveground. Six o’clock.
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