Raze Dawg sat in a secluded chamber deep inside Mountain Risen Monster Hunter Academy, in a cave where darkness swallowed the walls and carried every sound in slow ripples.
The chamber stood far from the academy's training halls, beast pens, and hunter shrines. It had been made for silence, but tonight, that silence only made the guild feed harder to ignore.
Even the academy's stone seemed to listen with him. The cave did not offer comfort or privacy anymore; it turned every mistake into something Raze Dawg had to hear twice.
Voices cut through the dark. Shouts carried farther than they should have, and every final command bounced off the cave walls before returning harder to dismiss.
After warning his guild about Emperoar, Raze Dawg had listened without saying another word.
