COLBY POV
We stepped through the portal and my heart clenched, my gut twisted. This was wrong.
This was very...very wrong.
We were steeped in darkness. Even leaning into my wolf's vision, it was incredibly difficult to see anything at all. Serafina tucked right beside me, her hand clenched in mine. Colby and Noelani right behind us. Celeste and Elliott behind them. Thatcher brought up the rear, and Persephone led the group.
Everything was bathed in silence. Sickening, suffocating silence.
All that sounded was drips of water from the ceiling, splashing down onto the slick, moistened ick of the stone ground below. At least...I hoped it was water. And each drip echoed through the intimidating darkness. Leaving nothing but uncertainty and fear it its wake.
We were definitely deep und
