BONE CROWN
Muscles rolled under the flesh like coiled snakes trapped under cloth.
Lyra stumbled back, her boots catching in the crust. The face she had desperately longed to see peeled away, leaving something tall, skeletal, and monstrous in its wake.
Its limbs were far too long, its shoulders narrow as a blade. Tight, charcoal-black skin clung directly to bone, and burning silver orbs gleamed from deep, hollow sockets.
The thing smiled again, devoid of any remaining humanity.
"Blackreach sends its regards."
The voice was still Kaelen's—a perfect, mocking match that made the horror a hundred times worse.
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