Gilded Prey

The moment Harper yanked her dual axes from the skull of a Shadow Direbear, she felt a sudden shift in the air.

The wind had stopped.

The bone-chilling cold that had dominated the area was rapidly receding.

"Wait."

Harper looked up.

The thick, suffocating black mist was thinning out right before her eyes.

It looked like ink being washed away by water, fading until the world behind it was finally v