“What in the gods’ name is this place?”  Shades newest member muttered under his breath, his voice barely carrying beneath the veil of Ligon’s darkness that cloaked them. Though he had lent it to them, the shadows still bent to Ligon's will no matter the distance. Valia, silent beside him, couldn’t deny the same wonder staring her in the face.

The first thing Valia noticed wasn’t the mist, it was the deadly quite beneath it.

The air itself seemed to hum with a watchful gaze. Every ...