Clara
The hallway exploded into chaos.
Hundreds of tiny black shadows shrieked as they swarmed toward me.
The sound was unbearable—high-pitched screeches that echoed through the long corridor like a thousand knives scraping glass.
I threw my arm up, instinctively trying to shield my face as the first wave rushed forward.
Behind me, I heard Chase shift back into human form. “Clara! Move!”
I stumbled backward just as Tyler and Jack burst out of the lab behind us, both already shifting as they ran.
Bones cracked. Fur exploded across skin. Two massive wolves slammed into the first swarm of shadows. Their claws ripped through the dark magic forms, but more kept coming.
So many more.
The hallway flooded with them. They poured out of every room Alabaster had opened, hundreds of corrupted
