In the crumbling ruins of Sundara, where stone monkeys grinned from vine-choked pillars and the air smelled of overripe mangoes, there lived a creature the monks called "Hanu the Cursed." He

The world had turned to dust. Eli stumbled through the cracked remains of what was once a forest, his boots kicking up clouds of fine, dead earth. The air tasted like metal and decay. He adjusted the straps

In the mist-choked valley of Hollow’s End, there was a garden where nothing living grew. Its caretaker, a gaunt woman known only as The Keeper, tended to rows of glass flowers—delicate, lifelike blooms