The sound faded completely but I couldn't shake what I'd just heard. That unnatural echo still rang in my head.
Stood there in the Shadow Depths with Gia next to me, both of us frozen in place. Waiting to see if it came back, if we'd hear it again.
Nothing. Just heavy silence pressing down on everything.
"What was that?" I finally asked.
Gia shook her head slowly. "I don't know. I've never heard anything like that in this realm before. Not in all my time here."
My mind went straight to Raya. If something that unnatural was hunting through the Shadow Depths right now, consuming souls and erasing them completely from existence, I needed to know she was still there. Still existing somewhere in the deeper sections.
"I need to check on her," I said.
"Kaiden, you know you can't reach that
