Queen of the Scarlet Tide

Previously

…The air outside, once familiar and comforting, now seemed charged with an unseen energy. The setting sun cast long, ominous shadows, and Sarah couldn’t shake the feeling that they were not merely shadows, but the creeping tendrils of the Scarlet Tide, beginning to stretch across her town. The echoes of Elias’s words, of ancient cults and a prophesied doom, reverberated in her mind, each tick of the watch a stark reminder of the precarious balance she now held. The path ahead was shrouded in mystery, a descent into a darkness she had only just begun to comprehend, and the weight of it pressed down on her, heavy and suffocating.