THORNE POINT OF VIEW

We moved out just as the last light began to fade from the sky.

No one asked questions. No one needed to. Cairn simply nodded once, and the others fell into place beside him. Two men, ones he trusted enough to bring into something this fragile joined us without a word.

The hollow disappeared behind us almost immediately, swallowed by the forest like it had never existed at all.

The deeper we went, the darker it became. The trees grew thicker, their branches weaving ...