Blood Beneath the Cypress Knees
She forced the monster to divert its path, buying crucial seconds.
Along the edge of the flood, Celine moved like a predator herself. Daggers flashed as she intercepted plunging timber and debris swept along by the current.
She flipped a witch out of the way, shoved another behind a ward, and kicked a floating log back into the swamp. Every step was lethal, every motion a shield for someone else.
Then the swamp darkened. A ripple in the water, a shadow, a shape more terrifying than any human fear—the High Hunter.
Pale, massive, every muscle coiled beneath stone-like skin. Each stride pressed the water down with unnatural weight. Its glowing red eyes scanned the plantation, calculating, patie
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