~The Scent Of Kian~

ELRICH

I hadn’t even stepped into the council room before the whispers hit me, faces turned as I entered with wide eyes, and lowered voices though I could hear everything

"They say she’s at the border again.." one of the guards murmured to another. "I saw her. I swear I did."

"Seen who? Calista?" someone else asked with a gasp of disbelief.

"She’s—" the man swallowed, like even saying her name could summon her, "she’s haunting the territory, like spirits, ...