Asher
I don’t know how this happened. I don’t understand how my gift of sight was blocked. Had I known, I never would have allowed Gio to follow me. He insisted I not go alone. He said it was too dangerous, even for me. The Almighty Fae! How wrong he truly was, and it was all my fault. I wasn’t strong enough to save him.
We had stumbled upon their encampments on the second day of our journey. They had cloaked themselves in the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina. We had picked up the necrotic scent of decaying flesh, a strong indication that rogues were nearby. We followed it north deep into the cavernous mountains. We had set up camp along the Little Tennessee River to rest, but we didn’t even have time to breathe. I had never been taken down in over five hundred years. My kind had destr
