Amelia POV

The forest did not welcome us.

It stood there like a wall carved from nightmares, its trees packed so tightly together that no sky showed through.

Their trunks twisted upward at unnatural angles, and it carried a presence thag sent chills down my spine from meters away.

Not a single flew above it or even anywhere close.

The air was too still, heavy and suffocating, as though the world itself was holding its breath.

I stopped at the edge.

Ronan stopped beside me too, his ...