Bane
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Last published Wed, Jul 2, 2025
(n.) death, destruction, or ruin
Monsters.
Not the ones you expect. Not the flesh-tearing creatures. No, not those ones. These were nothing like the movies. They towered over the forest that once housed them. They marched over the trees. They breathed the smoke that choked them.
His family saw death. Rowan Blackwell experienced it. The creatures tore his life apart. They killed his mother and made his father disappear. All he had was this necklace his mother had given him and a map of some place called the Caves.
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