Rei thought she heard someone shout for her.

It wasn’t very loud and it was only for a moment, but she knew she heard it, the disembodied whisper over her shoulder forming the shape of her name. She turned to seek it out, her ruby hair tumbling over her layered…

Zathvin’s Lichtenberg scar was throbbing again. As his heart struggled to pump blood through his lanky body, pushing it to race through the trees, he felt it pulse and itch; he desperately wished to stop and address it. But there was no time, for the vicious Spirit that chased…