The sense spell spread out, covered the ruins, and found nothing.
No heartbeat, no warm presence tucked behind a wall, no crushing weight of something that wanted to kill us. Not even a polite skeleton with a lab coat. Just empty buildings and wind moving through broken walls.
I dismissed the spell and turned to the group.
"It's empty."
A beat of silence.
Then I said it again, louder, because it deserved to be said louder.
"It's actually empty. No snakes, no Corruptors, no anything, just ruins."
Coco made a sound somewhere between a laugh and a gasp. Finn's shoulders dropped. Kira closed her eyes for a second, the expression of someone who felt relief running through her body. Phinyx let out a long, slow breath like he'd been holding it in expectation since the seventh outpost.
"Wip." Wip said from my head.
