Chapter 48 The Awakening Of Shadows

The breeze held a creepy whisper across the leaves, the first indication that something old, something forgotten was brewing beneath the silence. The air was dense with the force of what had gone before, yet there lay beneath it the scent of something more sinister rising, something which neither Selene nor Damien yet truly understood. The earth seemed to be holding its breath. The evening wore on, its moonlight wan and far away, casting long shadows across Ravenshire. The remains of Holt Manor, still smoldering from the battle that had been the end of the Hollow Wolf's rule, stood as a somber monument to the cost of victory. But for all the devastation, there was a feeling of quietness, a tenuous peace that had descended upon the land.