C98 DARKNESS CLAIMED HIS NAME

The night felt odd.

Elara experienced it before the wind moved – a weight in the air, thick and metallic, almost if the world was holding its breath. The Moonstone Bridge beneath her hummed faintly, the old runes shimmering with nervous light as though they, too, knew something was coming.

And then she felt him.

Damon.

Not the Damon who held her the night before