***Axel*** The dank air of the prison cell felt suffocating as I paced, the stone walls closing in on me in an oppressive claustrophobia. Each minute stretched into an eternity, relentless in their torment, and with each passing hour, the gnawing despair sharpened. I could hear the distant sounds of the guards and the whispered conversations melding together, a constant reminder of my imprisonment. But within the shadows of those four walls, something inside me began to stir—a relentless determination fueled by the knowledge that I had to escape. I had to reach my sister, Nova, before the darkness engulfed her completely. Every fiber of my being screamed against the relentless despair; I couldn’t let her fight alone against the encroaching threat of Aldric and the Bloodborne Clan. It wa

