Left in the Shadows

Alistair caught the frail girl just before she struck the rotting floorboards of Amos’s squalid house. As he held the unconscious Ophelia in his arms, his gaze darted toward Rosalind. Perhaps the freezing, torrential rain she had been forced to kneel in yesterday was finally taking its toll. A dizzying, unnatural heat consumed Rosalind from the inside out. He sharply noted her unusual pallor and t