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Chapter 27 : You have been deceived
Rowan’s POVFor a heartbeat, none of us moved.“And deliver us from evil.”The priest turned slowly, his eyes wide and wet. I felt Alden stiffen beside me. Hoseman’s hand went to his axe.“There,” Thomas whispered, pointing toward the altar.From the shadows behind it, a shape shifted.A man.Or what was left of one.He lay half-slumped against the stone with his robes clinging to a body reduced to angles and bone. His chest rose in shallow, uneven jerks, each breath sounding like it scraped his lungs raw on the way out. His skin was waxy, stretched tight over his skull, veins dark and swollen beneath it,he was barely alive.“My God,” the priest breathed and ran forward, dropping to his knees beside him. “Brother… brother, can you hear me?”The monk’s eyes fluttered open.They were clouded, unfocused, yet they found the priest’s face with desperate intent. His lips moved, but no sound came at first only a wet rasp.The priest leaned closer, pressing his ear near the man’s mouth, whisp
Chapter 26 : The House of Silence
Rowan’s POVThe road beyond the forest felt unreal.As though the world itself had chosen to pretend none of it had happened.After the attack and everything that has happened We all moved again without words.No one spoke of what we had lost. No one dared.The hills rose ahead of us in long with broken ridges and pale grass bending beneath the morning wind. The fog thinned with every step we took away from Wormwood Forest, but the weight it left behind clung stubbornly to our chests.I rode at the front now.The girl was silent behind me but was quietly observing.That frightened me more than her laughter ever had.By midday, we reached a narrow river winding between stones smoothed by time. The horses surged toward it eagerly, lowering their heads to drink with desperate gulps.I allowed the halt.The Men dismounted stiffly and their armor clinked. Some washed blood from their hands. Others simply stared into the water as if hoping it would carry their memories away.Hoseman knelt
Chapter 25: Blood
Rowan’s POVThe scream tore through the forest like a blade dragged across bone.“TRUMAN!”I twisted in the wagon seat just in time to see him fall from his horse. The animal reared in terror, then bolted riderless into the fog. Truman hit the ground hard, his wounded leg buckling beneath him.He tried to run but he couldn’t.He kept stumbling forward, dragging his injured leg,his breath coming out in wet, panicked gasps as the wolves fanned out around him in a widening circle.Red eyes.Too many.They didn’t rush him.They played with him instead.“Help!” Truman screamed, turning in place, spinning wildly as their huge shapes moved in the mist.He tore a small knife from his belt,nothing more than a pocket blade and raised it with shaking hands.“Stay back!” he cried with his voice cracking. “Stay back!”The wolves answered with low, rumbling snarls.I hauled the reins back hard.“Stop!” I shouted.The wagon lurched violently as the horses screamed in protest.The men shouted behind m
Chapter 24 : Ambush
Rowan’s POVThe howls did not come all at once.They came in layers.One from the left.Another from the right.Then behind us.Then above.The wolves were trying to trap us.They echoed off the hills and bled through the fog until direction meant nothing. The sound crawled under my armor, into my bones, until it felt like the forest itself was breathing around us.“Circle up!” I barked. “Shields outward!”The men moved fast, fear sharpening them as they locked their shields forming a ring of iron and firelight surrounded by fog. That was when they appeared.Shapes sliding through the mist,they were huge.They climbed the low hills with terrifying ease and their claws digging into the stone and root. Others moved through the trees, not crashing like beasts should but stalking and watching and their Red eyes blinked open one by one in the darkness.And at the center of it allThe wagon.I glanced back.The girl sat upright now with her chains clinking softly as she shifted with the li
Chapter 23 : The Attack
Rowan’s POVThe fog around thickened as night claimed the forest making it hard to see the front.“Closer,” I ordered as the men finished pitching the tents. “Pull them tight like fires in a ring with no gaps.”The bonfires flared to life one by one, their light trembling against the fog. Shadows stretched and twisted across armor and bark, turning every stump into a crouching beast. The horses were tied in a tight cluster, snorting and stamping nervously with the whites of their eyes showing.I double watch.Triple, if I could spare it.The wagon was dragged to the center of the camp like a cursed altar and the chains rattled softly as it settled.The howls and noises had faded for now, but their echo still crawled beneath my skin.When the men finally stopped talking, exhaustion dragging them toward uneasy rest, I took a torch from the nearest fire and turned toward the wagon.I did not know why my feet carried me there.Perhaps because Alden’s pale face still haunted me or because
Chapter 22 : Death Thread
Rowan’s POV For a long moment after Alden was hauled back from the abyss, no one moved. The bridge still swayed beneath us, groaning like a wounded beast,the planks were creaking and the ropes whining in protest. Alden lay on the boards, shaking so hard his armor rattled. I forced myself to look away from the wagon before my thoughts betrayed me. “Thomas,” I barked, dragging myself to my feet. “Bring the horses forward. We’re not pulling this thing by hand again.” Thomas blinked, still pale. “You want the horses on the bridge?” “Not on it,” I snapped. “To the front. Tie the ropes to their harness. We’ll let their muscles do what flesh nearly failed to.” He nodded sharply and ran. The men moved again carefully, as if the bridge might shatter simply from being looked at too hard. The wagon still sat at a crooked angle near the center span, one wheel dangerously close to open air. Inside, the girl watched us through the slats. The ropes were rethreaded and knotted
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