Chapter 115

SIENNA

The silence had grown thick. Not just with boredom or fear, but with something colder, meaner. The kind of silence that didn’t just exist....it waited. It loomed like a shadow just out of reach. It carried weight like a loaded gun, full of intent, full of consequence.

Time passed.

Or maybe it didn’t.

Time had long ago stopped meaning anything in this place. The walls didn’t shift with t