Emiliy's POV
We ran.
Through the endless forest, our feet barely touching the ground, the air thick with smoke, with shadows, with the monstrous growls of the demon wolf closing in behind us.
My breath came in ragged gasps, my lungs burning, my pulse pounding so loud I could hear it in my ears.
And beside me?
Lila.
The sister I had never known. The one I had spent my life fearing, resenting, fighting.
But right now?
We were just two girls trying to outrun death.
"Are we even getting anywhere?!" Lila snapped, her voice sharp, frantic.
I didn't know.
It felt like we had been running in circles, trapped in this nightmarish limbo with no way out.
But then—
A break in the trees.
I saw it.
A tunnel.
Massive. Dark on one end, blinding on the other.
One side was shadows, thick and
