The Quiet Record

Previously

…With that, Elara turned and fled, the confused murmurs of the village fading behind her. She ran not towards the safety of her home, but towards the wild, untamed edges of the valley, towards the deeper, older woods where the stones stood in their most ancient formations. The blight was spreading, and the whispers of the earth, once a gentle murmur, were now a desperate cry. She knew, with a chilling certainty, that her journey had just begun, and the path ahead would lead her far from the quiet embrace of Oakhaven. She had to find out what the stones truly remembered, and she had to find a way to make others understand before it was too late.