Ambush in the Mist

Author’s POV

Pale morning light bled through the gaps in the cabin walls, doing nothing to ease the thick dread inside the room. Nobody had managed any real sleep; their bodies were battered to the bone, yet their minds stayed too wired to drift off. Outside, a dead hush gripped the trees, as though the forest itself were bracing for the next wave of violence. Tobias moved first, rolling his stif