|| Penelope ||
She must be sacrificed. The Eclipse calls.
My breath caught, and I froze, my legs unwilling to move as I heard the whisper. The walls seemed to pulse in rhythm with the chant, the air growing colder, heavier, as if the very space around us had turned into something alive, something malevolent.
"What — " I managed, my voice trembling, but before I could finish the sentence, a sudden gust of icy wind howled through the passage. It hit me like a slap, making me gasp for air, and in that instant, the torches lining the corridor flickered and sputtered, their flames guttering and dying one by one.
The darkness that followed swallowed us whole. We were plunged into an inky blackness that pressed in from all sides, the faint outlines of the others barely visible even with my en
