Wildwood: The veins of the earth
Clara noticed driftwood charms above the doors, hanging like wards, and a thin line of salt across the windowsills.
“She said something’s watching her,” Tessa explained. “From the sea. She wakes up screaming. Sometimes sleepwalks to the water.”
Clara and Ashani exchanged glances. They knew the signs.
Isla sat in a corner near the fireplace, crayons scattered around her. She was drawing something—again and again—the same image, distorted slightly each time: a great black tree rising from the ocean, its roots made of tentacles, its branches of bone.
Ashani knelt beside her. “That’s beautiful,” she said gently. “What’s its name?”
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