Chapter 19:
Enhanced night vision and torchlight did nothing to help Thaddeus see into the future. The cavern was so large and chaotic, without a single clear path, the group would have lost Geovanni and their way if he’d not returned to guide them.
If not for the laggard locals, Thaddeus would have loved to run through the rocks with abandon, all fear and concerns tossed to the nonexistent wind. The darkness gave him newfound energy.
The scribe moved like a cat. Thad feared he embraced the change coming over them. Thaddeus didn’t dare let his emotions take over out of fear. The overriding fear of what he might do in some altered state. What he might become. How he might lose his humanity. How the others who depended on him might suffer.
Hallucinations only explained so much. This expe
