A Beautiful Curse

The heavy wooden door shut with a muffled thud behind her, sealing away the flickering hearth of the elder’s chamber. Sybil plunged headlong into the suffocating canopy of the ancient woods. She gripped the edges of her thick wool cloak, dragging the fabric tightly across her shivering shoulders against the biting night air.

It was dead quiet out here. The kind of absolute stillness that offered