Chapter 6 · free to read
The sixth offering, when it came, was not hidden in a lane. It was buried in the middle of ten thousand worshippers.
She did not find the body first. She found him.
He led her down, out of the light, into the veins under the city — and there he simply... dissolved.
The dark did to her what the crowd could not. It cracked her open.
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