Blood and Rain
"What do you mean, Orion? What are they doing to the people who stay behind?"
Orion looked around the circle, his voice dropping into a quiet, strained whisper that commanded the attention of the surrounding warriors. "The Inner Forest Glen is dying. Slowly, quietly, from the center outward. For the last fifty years, the great sentinel trees have been turning to brittle glass, their roots rotting into ash. The Elders told us it was a curse bleeding in from the highland borders—a sickness caused by the wolves and the vampires."
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