Dawn of the Paladin: Darkness: 4

Lena can't feel the people she loves. The thing that broke her can feel them just fine.Twelve survivors. A fold in the mountains. A dead leader's Bible and a single remaining combat patch. After Salanan, the Paladin have nothing left but each other and Madrak left a door inside Lena's mind that she cannot close. It's a gaze that sits at the edge of her awareness, watching everything.Tet builds to outrun his grief, but each activation narrows a window Trinket's scans say will never widen. Mogul sends a desperate message through a civilian who doesn't know what she's carrying. And in the mountain beneath the camp, a frequency older than civilization hums through the bedrock. It is the same that runs through the bones of a child born in exile.Three years in the dark. A son named for a dead man. The hiding is done. What comes next will not happen in the mountains.Dawn of the Paladin: Darkness is about grief being the terrain, patience being the weapon, and the most dangerous door being the one someone built inside you.