To Bleed For You
She looked down at it, her brows furrowing into a tight, troubled line before she looked back at Elena.
"What does it say?" Maya asked, stepping down from the porch to join them, her heart hammering against her ribs.
Thalia turned the parchment around, holding it up so both Maya and Elena could see. Written in a dark, thick substance that had dried into a sickening, rusty brown was a single, cryptic sentence:
The cycle demands a sacrifice, and the human anchors are borrowed time.
Beneath the words was an intricate, hand-drawn symbol—a stylized eye trapped inside a fractured circle. Elena stared at the mark, her flawless pale skin turning a shade whiter as a cold, terrifying recognition flash
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