Chapter 74 Welcome To Thane's Bend

• Echoes of screams tore through the silence, sharp and cruel, waking Geri with a violent gasp. The breath burned as it shot from his lungs, like a man pulled up from drowning.
• His eyes flicked open, they were empty—mirroring a soul starved of what it craved most. His cheeks were sunken, skin pale as ash, lips cracked and dry. There was no light in his eyes, only a haunted void.
• He blinked, trying to adjust. Darkness.