"Okay, we're good."
Juli wiped her brow.
"You scared the hell outta me with that pause!"
"Better safe than sorry."
He turned the book over in his hand. There was nothing special about it, but it had a lure that made you want to open it immediately.
The leather was rough under his fingers, the edges of the pages curled inward with age, and the clasp opened with a soft click the moment he pressed it.
The first page held a single sentence written messily over a crumpled page: "to whoever finds this, take it and run. the depths have woken up."
Eli's blood went cold.
'What in the world… Is there something like this when I played the game?'
He didn't remember a single detail about this mysterious book. It wasn't a matter of skipping parts of the story; he would have remembered such a strange event if it had happened.
