Chapter 7: The Price of Asking
The day opened warm and bright, sunlight drifting between thinning branches to stripe the game trail in shifting gold. The […]
A Pact With Fangs
Chapter 6: Eat, and You Shall Never Be Clean
The morning sun filtered weakly through the trees, casting pale gold into the hollow. The air was cool, still damp
Chapter 5: In the Owl’s Debt
Shade moved ahead of the others with the silent, practiced ease of someone who’d spent most of his adult life
Chapter 4: What the Grave Could Not Stomach
A blur of red and black sliced past Serathis as he twisted away. He struck with his tail, catching the
Chapter 3: Shadows Over Timberflow
Rain clung to everything. It beaded on the rough-hewn palisade, slicked the roots underfoot, and turned the trail along Timberflow’s
Chapter 2: Dreams of Hunger and Stone
The eastern grasslands sparkled with a golden hue. Down in the riverbed, the Silverstream hissed quietly as it brushed against
Chapter 1: Baptism of Venom
Late afternoon on a warm fall day, the last traces of summer hang in the air. Streaks of golden light