Chapter 4
Chapter 4
Eleanor receives a call from Amelia Blackhood, who claims to be alive and reveals that the Devourer was not destroyed but freed. Amelia insists on meeting at a neutral location to explain the truth, leaving Eleanor torn between disbelief and the chilling familiarity of the voice.
The phone felt cold against Eleanor’s ear. The voice on the other end was calm, measured, and unmistakably the same voice that had whispered to her in dreams, that had spoken through the fire.
“Amelia Blackhood is dead,” Eleanor said, her voice steadier than she felt. “I just burned her body.”
“You burned a shell,” the voice replied. “A vessel I used to anchor myself to that house. But I am not the body, Eleanor. I am the mind that made the pact, the will that bound the Devourer. And I am very much alive.”
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