But based on what he'd witnessed over the past weeks, and what he'd learned about himself, he could no longer call himself a skeptic. There were spiritual forces out there, undeniably, and they were so ingrained in the fabric of the universe that he had begun to understand how it all connected. That spiritual, celestial realm was a web that tied together the real, corporeal world he lived in.

Things like the Elder Gods were the spiders living on the webs. Places like Earth were prey, caught in the silk fibers, emitting vibrations that carried through the web, sensed by the spiders, which came running.

Running, driven by hunger, ready to poison their meal and suck out every last drop of life from it.

Staring down at Ina, his friend of almost a decade, Wilder felt a surge of grief grea...

Please subscribe to keep reading.