BRIANNA’S POV
I shouldn’t be here.
Every part of me screamed it—my instincts, my gut, even feeling in my chest. But I didn’t care. This wasn’t about recklessness. It was about Kayt.
I had to know.
She never talked about it—about this place. But I saw it in her eyes sometimes. That faraway look, like she was hearing screams no one else could hear. I could remember her flinches. Her silences. The tension in her body when someone stepped too close. I knew pain when I saw it.
And now, I was walking into the heart of it.
She was my friend. I just wanted to check on her. besides, how dangerous could it be? Right?
The path was narrow. The forest here was... wrong. It wasn’t like the woods around my parents’ house. This was darker. Thicker. The trees twisted upward in a weird way and the l
