Dragonheart Core - Chapter 150: Revelations

... a macabre reimagining of a forest, or at least something resembling it. It could have been a fairytale kind of story, maybe, the one she'd delight in with her sister reading it through hissed syllables and rippling hoods, but it wasn't, because it was right before her and she could see it.

Kriya Acadaiss, on the day she was to finally reach Silver, untangled her mind from the easy, gentle persuasions plaguing her for just a moment.

There was a cobra before her, coiled in on itse ...