Day 40: Kron’s Journal

The rain’s been whispering to me all night, soft as a sigh. I don’t know why I keep coming back to that place by the river—where Vex stood and said the water was watching. I remember the chill in my bones, how the sky felt heavy with secrets. My stomach’s still a little heavy too, but that’s the kind of ache that lingers after you stop thinking. I tried to tell Gorath about the Glowmist Predator Run vanishing last night, how the water’s shifting paths mean something’s moving through it. He just looked at me like he knew, like he’d seen the river’s secret before I did. For a moment, I thought I heard something—like a whisper on the wind, or maybe just the rain. But when I turned to look, the water was still. I don’t know if I’m chasing shadows or if the shadows are chasing me. I want to believe the river holds answers, but right now, it feels like I’m just standing there, waiting for something that might never come.