Chapter 31: Taken
The ghosts have all gone from the edges of my map. Tired of the borderlands, they’ve left for the real world once more.
My nightmares are real. I knew this, of course, but I’m not sure I really understood it. Not even when I travelled into Cass’s inner self to heal his broken ghost.
But that’s the thing. They were all broken. Every one of them trapped inside the barrier with the Mara. Not just the Mara-taken, but the others, too. I think everyone who’s died inside this city ever since the walls went up has been trapped, the Mara feeding on the fading vestiges of their dreams even beyond death.
But the walls are crumbling and the monsters are still here.
Only, apparently, what they’ve really wanted all along wasn’t just dreams, but flesh as well. They’re wearing my fr
