Ep. 5 — The Anomaly

Left for Bad · Oct 30, 2026 · 8m

"Probably an animal." That's what he tells them. It isn't true.Himzo's chapter. A servant has reported disturbed ground near the outer fields — flattened grass, one faint drag mark, running toward an old drainage grate nobody has thought about in years. Reports like that don't usually reach the heir. But Lord Edric has been jumpier than usual for weeks, and jumpy in him means eyes he personally trusts on anything unusual, however small. He sends his son to confirm it.What Himzo finds at the grate is small, recent, and wrong. A partial boot print pressed into the soft ground — a few days old…