~Sarah’s POV~
The world is usually too loud for people like me, but in the dark, the noise fades, and the shadows become a playground. I shifted my weight, my boots making no more sound than a falling leaf on the clay floor of the fissure.
I watched Alicia at the front gates from my peripheral vision. She was a beacon of lightning, a storm wrapped in human skin.
When the first bolt of violet lightning hit the iron gates, the vibration traveled through the soles of my feet, a signal that the game had begun.
"Now," I breathed. My voice was a ghost, even to the people standing right next to me.
I slipped into the narrow c***k in the stone. Vesper and Kael followed, but to me, they sounded like a mountain slide. Kael's gear clinked with silver, and Vesper's heartbeat was a frantic echo ag
