Chapter 4
Chapter 4: The Hollow and the Echo
Dzeze walks deeper into the forest, following the whisper. She finds a small cabin with signs of recent occupation and a note from Erzvilkas directing her to an old mine. At the mine entrance, she hears multiple voices. She enters and finds Erzvilkas alive but bound, and the Voice reveals itself as a woman with a radio transmitter.
The forest swallowed the last of the daylight. Dzeze held the lantern high, its flame casting a small circle of gold around her. The whisper had stopped as suddenly as it began, leaving only the rustle of leaves and the distant call of a night bird. She walked on, her footsteps soft on the carpet of pine needles.
The path wound between ancient oaks, their branches forming a canopy that blocked the sky. She remembered the well in the clearing from the previous night, but she did not turn toward it. Instead, she followed the direction the whisper had seemed to come from—a faint pull, like a thread she could barely feel.
After a quarter of an hour, the trees thinned and she came to a small clearing she had not seen before. In its center stood a wooden cabin, its roof sagging, one window boarded. A thin curl of smoke rose from the chimney. Someone was inside.
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