The air was thick with smoke, the kind that crawls into your lungs like it's trying to choke you from the inside. I had been running for what felt like hours, but time didn’t make sense anymore. Not in a world that was unraveling faster than I could piece it together.
Adrian was ahead of me, his silhouette barely visible through the haze. We had to get to the main facility. I didn’t know why, but the pull inside me—the same pull that had driven me to the edge of madness—told me that’s where I needed to be. If I could figure out how to control the beast within me, maybe, just maybe, I could stop what was coming.
And what was coming wasn’t a storm. It was an apocalypse.
I glanced behind me, expecting to see the hulking, shadowy forms of the Scourge following. They were relentless. And if
