CHASING MONSTERS
Snowflakes drifted down, fat and silent, swirling through the torchlight.
He muttered under his breath, the words misting the air. “Goddess help us all.”
From a high balcony above, unseen, Arnold watched him go. His fingers tightened around the edge of the stone balustrade until his knuckles whitened.
He turned and slipped back inside.
But down in the courtyard, the snow kept falling, soft, relentless, erasing every footprint Sophie had left behind.
And far beyond the castle walls, deep in the forest, a wolf howled once, a long, mournful sound that rose into the storm and shivered through the night.
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