Rachel Gardner, Foster Isaac - Angel Of Death

A Vow of Flesh and Fire: How Isaac Foster Finally Kept His Promise to Rachel Gardner

The silence in the cabin was a living thing, a heavy blanket woven from the scent of pine, woodsmoke, and the ever-present, faint tang of antiseptic that clung to Foster Isaac like a second skin. It was a silence Rachel Gardner had come to cherish, a stark contrast to the cacophony of sirens, screams, and mechanical dread that had defined their bloody escape from that concrete tomb. Here, nestled deep in a forest that had swallowed them whole, the only sounds were the crackle of the fire in the stone hearth, the whisper of wind through the eaves, and the rhythmic, grating scrape of Zack’s scythe against a whetstone.