Eden Grace

The heavy, suffocating scent hung thick in the air, a dark smoke coiling through the chamber like liquid shadows.

The smoke seeped into Eden's lungs with every slow breath, dragging her consciousness down into a forced, unnatural slumber.

​Even in sleep, there was no sanctuary.

The nightmare twisted into reality around her. She was running through a dense, pitch-black forest, the sharp thorns of the trees tearing at her skin as she clawed toward a distant streak of moonlight.

Freedom.

Eden's heart hammered in her chest, a desperate, wild rhythm as she pushed her limbs faster, determined to find a way out of this endless darkness.

​"Running again,...