Recap of Chapter 53: The Thing in the Dark
The cabin descended into chaos. The lights were snuffed out, throwing everyone into a suffocating blackness filled with crashing furniture and the sound of something inhuman slithering across the floorboards. Kael lashed out blindly, Elena struck once with her blade, and Aaron's ragged shout was drowned in the storm of noise. When the lantern finally flickered back to life, only three remained standing — and one of them was not breathing. The weight of that silence set the stage for a new fracture within the group, where trust had already been paper-thin.
Main Story – Shadows Between Us
The lantern's glow painted everything in amber, a trembling light that stretched the shadows across the cabin's walls like twisted claws.
