CazThe world drops out from under me without warning.One second, The Void is in front of me.Mist. Blackened ground. Tristan shouting my name.Then nothing.No sound.No air.No up.No down.Just cold.Then I hit stone hard enough to knock the breath from my lungs.For a few seconds, I don't move.Mostly because my body is too busy deciding which part hurts most.Sinister groans beneath my skin."Well...""Don't.""That was dramatic.""I said don't.""Noted."I roll onto my back and stare upward.Stone curves above me in rough black arches, jagged and uneven like the inside of something ancient and dead. The air smells of damp rock, old smoke, and something metallic beneath it.Blood?No.Magic.Old magic.Rotten magic.Fantastic.I sit up slowly.The mark on my wrist burns.Not painfully.Defensively.Like it woke before I did."Where are we?" Sinister asks.I look around.A cavern stretches in every direction, wide enough to swallow the packhouse whole. Thin black roots crawl thro
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