Chapter 38 The Gore Siege

• Over Gore Academy, the darkness descended. Silence pressed against the walls, and above the towers, the moon hung like a blood-red eye. Too silent. Too incorrect.
• The first horn then sounded.
• The Academy guard would not have done it. From outside the gates, it came. The earth rumbled. A gruesome scream ripped through the atmosphere. With their clawed hands tearing into stone, shadows poured over the outer walls.