🌙Lilith
The mansion swallowed me just as thoroughly as the forest had.
Only this time, the air was colder—not with earth and shadow, but with stone and silence and the faint, sterile polish of wealth. My claws skidded on marble, momentum carrying me too far before I corrected, shoulder clipping a column hard enough to jolt my teeth. I used it anyway, pivoting off the impact and veering down the first corridor without slowing.
The glow clung to me, reflected and fractured in tall mirrors and glass-paneled walls, turning me into something feral and luminous, something that did not belong here.
I was calling too much attention to my location—I needed to hide.
Kaia withdrew into my flesh, my two feet touching the ground while my forelimbs shifted to hands at my side.
I listened for Vladimir, but came up with nothing. He was still in the fields following the scent I'd left behind.
I still had time to hide.
