The Rot Beneath The Pines

The forest was never silent. It was listening.

In the depths of the pines, the wolf packs live by law:

Alpha feeds first. Omegas eat last. Survival is everything.

Ashfall has always been the last to eat. The weakest. The one no one watches.

But when a sickness begins to spread through the pack, a madness that clouds the eyes and twists instinct into violence, Ashfall is the first to notice something far worse.

Wolves begin digging at the earth.

Growling at shadows.

Answering something beneath the soil.

The Hollowblood is not just a disease.

It is a call.

As the forest tightens its grip and packmates turn into predators, Ashfall must survive a horror that doesn't just infect the body... it infects the mind.

While beneath the roots of the pines, something ancient is waking.