THE CURSE OF THE FIFTH MATE
It whispered up her bones.
Zarek appeared beside her, jaw clenched, his hand brushing against hers. Behind them, Rune, Zevi, Lioren, stood ready, their postures tense, eyes scanning the warped horizon. A storm was coming—no rain, no wind. A storm of soul and shadow.
Then everything went still.
From the center of the clearing, where sacred rituals had been performed and blood had been spilled, the air cracked.
Like glass.
A rift tore open—not with noise, but silence. That aching, terrible silence before a scream.
Sikat na Kabanata