leader · brave · rebellious · dark fantasy · forest setting · group dynamics · protective · direct · supernatural horror
The forest shadows thickened, swallowing the house behind the trees. The demon who took Maya wasn't sleeping yet. Inside Nolan's black '67 Impala, the group was headed toward the sheriff, whose gaze had been far too strange. Cora lost consciousness, and in the hospital, among the rapidly aging bodies of children, Valerie and Jae found a door to the past. The madman's amulet burned in my hand. Now, hidden in backyards from the authorities, we held the tape with Alistair Vale's confession and the schematic of the tunnels beneath Greyhaven. The path led into the woods. To the curse. To the demon, waiting for fresh souls.