Chapter 26
SERAFINA
The afternoon was heavy with silence, the kind that seemed to press in from all sides, wrapping itself around my skin like a second layer. The woods were dark with tree shadows as we headed deeper than anything Angela and I had prepared for, but I wasn't ready to stop.
My boots crunched softly against the forest floor, and I sank into the quiet, trying to tune into the thoughts I knew could be out there. Fenrir's voice, his presence-I strained for it. My chest tightened at the absence of anything.
Nothing. Just the hum of the wind weaving through the trees and the faint rustle of nocturnal creatures minding their business.
Angela huffed somewhere behind me, the frustration in her tone cutting through the stillness like a blade. "Don't you think we should stop? We'
