Daisy's pov
I had counted twenty by the time I stopped counting.
Twenty bodies scattered across a clearing that looked wrong from the moment we stepped into it, the kind of wrong that had nothing to do with what your eyes were telling you and everything to do with what your body understood before your brain caught up. The trees around the edge of the clearing were too still. The ground was too quiet. Even the air felt like it was holding something back.
I stood and looked at all of it and fear settled into my chest and stayed there.
Khai glanced back at me and the expression on his face was somewhere between told you so and genuine concern. "I warned you," he said. "But you were too stubborn to stay home."
"I am fine." My voice came out steadier than I felt.
"Stay behind me." He turn
