When Radiance Breads Ruin IV

The alleys whispered with dread. Hollow yet suffocating in their silence. Shadows clung to the walls like festering wounds, the brick slick with the creeping moisture of corruption.

Overhead, the sky had soured to a deep bruise, its once-pristine vastness choked by the roiling miasma bleeding from the ruined Tala residence.

The scent of decay curdled in the air—foul, acrid, and thick enough to taste. It coated the tongue like spoiled meat left to rot under a dying sun.

Thunder continued rumbling. A sound not born of the heavens, but something far worse, like ribs breaking under unseen weight and voices screaming through split flesh. It came in waves, rattling through the broken district, seeping into bone and marrow. The echoes stretched, distorted, and warped into something unnatural.