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Read Hollow by Caroline Peckham Chapter 38 – Ferris retreated from me, one step after the other marking each crushing moment of reality as it sank into her. The truth. There, written in the dark for her to see at last. Her kiss still lingered on my mouth, the touch of sweetness I’d stolen already

Read Hollow by Caroline Peckham Chapter 37 – My pride over gaining the Unicorn was fast souring. The Dragon remained angry at me despite the amount of times I’d apologised, and it had also banned both the Raven and the Unicorn from assisting me while it enacted its punishment. I had no idea how long

Read Hollow by Caroline Peckham Chapter 36 – I’d taken shelter in houses and an old tavern, never staying more than one night so that I could keep moving. I was hunting her more than the spirits now. Death was dripping from me like a plague of locusts come to feast upon the earth, every tree,

Read Hollow by Caroline Peckham Chapter 35 – The Dragon had taken me right across the forest when I’d fled Hendrix’s company, and I couldn’t deny the way the northern parts of the woods felt different. The birds sang more softly here, the wind was more of a breeze, and even the leaves on the

Read Hollow by Caroline Peckham Chapter 34 – “Ferris!” I roared after her into the storm the Dragon had left in their wake, rain crashing down over me and I broke into a run, my only thought to find her, make her listen to me. She’d seen but a glimpse of my depravity and run as

Read Hollow by Caroline Peckham Chapter 33 – Two days of squatting in ramshackle buildings which barely offered shelter had done little to dampen my fury at Hendrix. Again he’d used me to gain a spirit which never would have been his otherwise. It rankled something deep within me, rage tearing at the piece of me

Read Hollow by Caroline Peckham Chapter 32 – We’d given up on the Stag after four more days of tireless hunting, walking in circles hour after hour in case we came across it. Eventually we’d had to agree that either some other Champion had found the spirit or that we were not looking in the

Read Hollow by Caroline Peckham Chapter 31 – We’d taken a day and a night to recover from our encounter with the Lost Children. The morning after meeting with them in the dark, I’d woken to find my pack and all the possessions we’d left at the mill waiting for me on the doorstep. I could

Read Hollow by Caroline Peckham Chapter 30 – Ferris filled me in on everything her sister had told her while I reclined in a mouldering chair and she paced back and forth in front of me, getting herself riled up into a storm. “I’ve been here so many times before, Hendrix, born to die and

Read Hollow by Caroline Peckham Chapter 29 – The taste of dirt on my tongue made me gag, pain burning my limbs as the Lost Children pinned me down again and dragged my arms so far behind my back that I was certain they’d tear them from their sockets at any moment. Hendrix looked lost to