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... > The sound that reached him, was crying.

Not the shriek of an Abomination or the death rattle of some wounded beast as one would expect.

No. It was the discordant noise of a wailing child.

High-pitched, broken, and desperate like the cry of an infant seeking its mother.

Nero froze mid-step, his hand instinctively moving to the hilt of the Silver Blade.

Something was instinctively wrong with that for various reasons.

’A trap. Another ghost?’ was th ...

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