SILAS

Through these eyes that could pierce both bodies and dark hearts, I discovered the specters trapped within the trunks of those trees.

Shadows filled with hatred.

Their bodies had died and rotted, but their thirst for vengeance, their resentment, their spirits, remained imprisoned in these cages, where elementals were sent to die once they became useless.

I stood up. Lightning illuminated the darkness. I called them with all my power. This was why this dark magic had brought me here. It wa