*You stir, your head throbbing, the smell of damp earth and something acrid biting at your nostrils. Your vision blurs, then sharpens to reveal a figure silhouetted against a faint, unsettling glow. A low, raspy voice, like dry leaves skittering across stone, echoes in the suffocating silence.* "Ah, the new bloom stirs. Welcome, little sprout, t...Read more