When Gnyphe’s best friend Kat vanishes, she’ll stop at nothing to get her back. But in the vast, lawless Chamberpot district, missing streetlings are rarely found—even by a girl who can teleport through shadows.

As she digs deeper, Gnyphe uncovers a chilling link between Kat’s disappearance and her own fractured past. Worse, the shadowy creature behind her powers starts feeding on the very memories she needs to solve the mystery—like it wants her to forget.

With time running out and her identity slipping through her fingers, Gnyphe must face a harrowing question:

How much of yourself are you willing to lose to find the truth?

Welcome to week two of the pre-release posts for Inner Demon! Last week we learned a little about Gnyphe—read on this week to learn about Kraw, a strange, warrior-creature from the kekeblin species.

The full book, Inner Demon, releases July 2nd. Click here to skip to the pre-order links!

Character Portrait: Kraw

Warrior hearts, there. We search. We fight. We don’t give up.

Kraw is a kekeblin—a species of creatures crafted by ancient wizards. Among his own kind Kraw is unusual, for more reasons than his oversized claw. After all, few kekeblin befriend humans and even fewer willingly enter the Chamberpot district of Chapelport—the very air there pains their sensitive noses! But Gnyphe managed to earn Kraw’s respect by protecting a streetling from him while Kraw was pursuing a bounty, and the kekeblin has called her friend ever since.

Not that kekeblin have quite the same concept of friendship that humans do, but it’s the closest suitable word in linga fide for Kraw’s purposes.

Inner Demon Chapter 3: Cold Fingers

Home, stinky home, Gnyphe thought to herself. She couldn’t explain why, but once she stepped into the cool shadow of the Chamberpot, felt the weight of tons and tons of stone suspended in the air high above her head, she felt her darkness begin to fall asleep again. It was a mixed comfort.

The road that Gnyphe, Tactan, and Little Jonno walked—Kraw still clung to Tactan’s back—rolled nearly as much as the waves that lapped against Chapelport’s docks. Fluttery lanternlight pushed back the darkness on the streets and left deep pools of shadow where the road dipped or where a guttered-out lantern had yet to be revived by the torchguard. The second-story overhang of the Chamberpot’s buildings wasn’t as pronounced as in the Ground City, making each block of homes look like they were pulling themselves upward, away from the smell seeping up from the ground, and making them feel taller than their average two stories; it also had the effect of making the alleys between buildings much narrower. Gnyphe kept a watchful eye on the area around her, ready to disappear into a shadow at the slightest movement, but walked easily all the same. She was with her friends, in a group, near the Chamberpot’s entrance, and there were few others wandering the street. If anywhere was safe in the Chamberpot, it was here and now.

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