From Man To Beast

strained his ears, listening for Kaela's voice. But the silence that followed the collaps

oed into the abyss, sw

the chasm that had opened beneath them. He didn't know where she had gone, but he couldn't a

hin him. He had no idea how it worked or why it had responded so violently in t

m the shadows m

ocess the danger. He spun around, his eyes scanning the darkness.

hadow-wolf stepped from the gloom, its silhouette monstrous against the crumbling

reach him, a flash of silver slashed through the

e watched Kaela-alive, and standing tall

l but strained. She wiped the blood from her blade and she

had barely escaped the fall. She was covered in blood and bruises, yet she stood tall, unshaken by the chaos

Drexler?"

he explosion. I don't know where he is. But w

happened here, and why the Heartstone is connected t

ir was thick with tension. Something wasn't right. The further they went, the more it

depths of the ruins. It was followed by the sound

la's arm. "We nee

one door, covered in ancient runes. Kaela

aid. "I've heard stories about it-about the tr

about stories. "

neath his fingers. There was a hum of power beneath the s

han pushed, and the door creak

ent of decay and ancient power. The walls were adorned with strange symbols, glowing faint

. "We don't kno

tious," Ethan said, urgency i

that nearly knocked them off their feet. The darkness ahead seemed to swallo

ooms, each filled with strange artifacts and faded tapestries depicting scenes of battle and devastatio

mber, its ceiling lost in the shadows above. In the center o

the Hea

with dark energy, its surface rippling with veins of crimson light. The

aela began, her

grimly. "Th

. He could feel it in his bones-the same energy that had drawn him to the re

hoed through the roo

ld not ha

e voice was familiar-too f

d on her blade. "We n

was t

violently beneath them. Ethan and Kaela were thrown to the flo

cracked open beneat