The Hollow Below
Diana’s POV
It was buried beneath a maintenance hatch in a forgotten alley behind one of the city’s oldest hospitals.
A single rusted grate.
That’s all it took to hide a legacy of betrayal.
Gina had pulled city blueprints. Cameron had cross-checked leyline intersections. And I was still raw from the tether pointed to the one place that pulsed when I closed my eyes.
Now, the three of us stood over it, moonlight cutting across broken brick and graffiti.
“It’s dormant,” Gina said, kneeling to run her fingers across the grate. “But the spell residue is strong. Something’s been awakened recently.”
Cameron stepped beside her. “We go together.”
I nodded.
Even as nausea crawled under my skin I couldn’t back down now.
Cameron and Gina pried the hatch open.
Stale air rus
