Soulforged: The Fusion Talent - Chapter 6 — Outpost Grimhollow

... cavenged iron, broken wagon frames, and sharpened bone stakes hammered into the mud. The air smelled of ash, fever, and whatever the surgeons scraped off the dead before they burned them.

It wasn’t a place to live.

It was a place you stayed until you died or proved you were worth sending somewhere less doomed.

Most of the soldiers called it the Gutter.

Only the officers used its proper name.

The outpost sat on the edge of a hunting zone mo ...