Dark Carnival

Previously

…But the silence was not empty. It was filled with the echoes of screams, the specter of grinning masks, the lingering chill of otherworldly presences. The Dark Carnival had vanished, but its mark on Oakhaven, and on the souls of those who had witnessed its horrors, would remain. Silas clutched the locket, its weight a reminder of the past, its coolness a promise of a future that, however scarred, was now their own to reclaim. The spectacle was over, but the haunting had just begun.