I only found an empty, dark corridor so dark it felt like the maw of a beast.
But I could feel it. The shadows were my allies, and right now, someone was watching me from within them .
I didn't stay to find out who.
This castle was becoming more terrifying by the day.
I hurried to my tiny room, but as I passed one of the windows, I glanced outside toward the castle walls and I covered my mouth in horror.
The metal spikes protruding from the high stone wall were dripping with blood.
One held the cook's head, her features twisted in agony, frozen in the moment of her brutal death.
Beside her, the limbless torso of that damned warrior, his genitals gone, and the thick iron pike impaling his body … through the back.
It made me sick to my stomach.
I turned away, nauseous at the barbari
