Anathema (The Eating Woods)

Anathema (The Eating Woods)

Author: Keri Lake Listening Length: 20h 13m
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From the author of Nocticadia comes a spellbinding gothic dark fantasy about a shunned woman who is forced beyond the mortal realms forbidden boundary, into a terrifying world of cursed souls and grotesque creatures. Only the banished know what lies beyond the woods There are whispers about what lurks in Witch Knell—t...

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Chapter 22

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO

ZEVANDER

T hrough a thick, white fog, Zevander and Kazhimyr peered across the mire of dead wood, where, in the distance, the dreaded Corvus Keep perched on a weathered, stone hill. Not much was known about the castle, abandoned long before Zevander’s time. No scribe mage would’ve dared to scrounge the history of it, nor the small village within its crumbling walls that lined the perimeter, not with all the bloodthirsty Carnificans that’d made it their home.

“We’ll continue on foot,” Zevander said, dismounting Obsidyen. The thick muck served as a natural trap that the Carnificans would exploit to eat the horses alive. Not that it was any less treacherous for the two Letalisz, but at least they had the ability to defend themselves. Outside of snapping teeth, Obsidyen would have little at his disposal, while the Carnificans tore at his flesh with long, overgrown nails and teeth grounded to pointed tips.