Chapter 10: The Forgotten Temple Of Oath[2]
By the second day, the world had stopped trying to pretend it was normal. The trees leaned in as if they grew crooked.
No, I've seen crooked. This was worse. Like they moved when I wasn't looking. Like every time I turned my head, they exhaled a little closer.
Their bark pulsed faintly, and roots were filled with mana and something else, something sinister.
Shadows no longer respected the sun. They stretched wrong and reached out long after the light had passed.
Time itself started to bend.
I blinked, and the sky jumped.
I counted three clouds, closed my eyes, and opened them again only to find them all gone.
The birds stopped singing.
The insects were still.
The wind whispered things I didn't try to understand.