The faint shimmer of stardust was already fading from the clearing, but Jayden's golden eyes flared, Dragon's Eye igniting. His aura-sense picked it up... thin streaks of blue energy, faint trails that cut across the air like veins of lightning.
"Got you," he muttered, crouching low.
With a sharp kick against the ground, he leapt, vaulting into the trees. His body moved with instinct, claws retracting as he used his hands and feet to propel himself from branch to branch. Bark splintered under his boots, leaves whipped past his face, and still he kept his focus locked on the glimmer of blue.
The trail stretched deeper into the forest, glowing faintly in his vision. And as Jayden followed, he began to notice something that sent a shiver through him.
Corpses.
Many of them. All of beasts that had seemingly encountered with the blue light.
