The Hollow Bell.2
The air in Ashwick was heavy with the scent of rain and rot, the streets quiet after the chaos we'd wrought, the debt's hum a memory that lingered in my scars. Ethan Carver stood by the window of our rented house, my hands still trembling from the weight of the raven statue we'd shattered weeks ago, its toll a silence that didn't comfort. Lila Voss sat at the table, her scar a pale line across her cheek, her one eye scanning Ellen Dunn's journal, its pages a map of our fight, a warning of what might come. Jake Reed sketched in the corner, his spirals glowing faintly, his hands steady despite the fear we all shared, the pavement mark's tendrils a ghost in his lines.
We thought we'd won-breaking the raven statue, sealing the debt's first anchor, saving Ashwick from its grip. But the journal's final page, written in Ellen's hurried hand, haunted us: The debt scatters, seeking new hearts, new tolls. It never ends. My scar burned, a faint pulse, a reminder of the keeper's role I couldn't escape, and I knew Lila felt it too, her fingers tracing the journal's edge, her voice low. "It's not over," she said, her eye meeting mine, a truth we couldn't deny.
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