Outlander - Blood Of... Page

The stones didn't answer, but for the first time in years, the silence felt like a promise.

"The blood must pay the toll," the woman whispered to Brian. Outlander - Blood of...

As he pressed his palm against the central monolith, the air grew thick with the scent of ozone and gorse. Usually, the stones screamed with the sound of a thousand bees, but tonight, they whispered. They whispered a name: Brian. The stones didn't answer, but for the first

The vision snapped. Jamie pulled his hand back, his own palm stinging. A thin, red line had opened across his skin, mirroring his father’s old wound. The stones fell silent. Usually, the stones screamed with the sound of

Suddenly, the ground gave way, not into a physical pit, but into a vision. Jamie saw his father, Brian Fraser, standing on this very spot decades earlier. Brian wasn't alone. He was facing a traveler—a woman with eyes like amber and skin the color of toasted honey. She wasn't Claire, but she wore a medical stethoscope around her neck like a silver serpent.

The standing stones of Craigh na Dun did not just hum; they bled.