Chapter Twenty-Three
CorruptionThey could not sense the one they hunted for their master, but they knew she was close. The woman who had led them astray had fooled them, briefly, but she had also exposed their target's location. They were not fools, one could not mimic another without first having been in proximity to them. This woman, Acha, had another purpose now, she would take them to her. They had descended upon her, hoping to learn all she knew, but instead they discovered something spectacular, a means to retrace her steps. The essence they would normally devour possessed something they had not encountered before, a space. A place they could weave themselves inside in order to gain control, a means to infiltrate and seize the one they sought in their grasp, without having to conce
