Deeper - Kenna James - Choose Your Trial -21.12... [iOS]

She stepped forward, ignoring the Coil and the Chalice. She chose the Blade.

Kenna stepped backward, through the door. Deeper - Kenna James - Choose Your Trial -21.12...

Kenna drew her short sword, but her arms felt slow. The first knight lunged. She parried, but instead of clashing steel, her blade passed through him like smoke. Then she felt it—a memory, sharp as a shard of glass, forcing its way into her mind. Her mother, crying in a locked room. Kenna, age seven, pressing her ear to the wood. “I’m sorry,” her mother had whispered. “I have to go deeper.” She stepped forward, ignoring the Coil and the Chalice

The third knight didn’t attack. It knelt and removed its helm. Inside was not a face, but a mirror. Kenna saw herself—not as she was, but as she could be: hollow-eyed, sitting alone in a room full of unsolved mysteries, old before her time. Kenna drew her short sword, but her arms felt slow