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CHAPTER 17- The girl who burns

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I woke up in pieces.

Not physically, but it felt like someone had taken a blade to who I was and split it into shards.

The war hall was quiet, eerily so, except for the sharp buzzing in my ears. The stone floor beneath me was cracked. Smoldering. My fingertips were coated in ash and something darker.

Above me, the broken ceiling let in slivers of pale light. I blinked slowly, every part of my body throbbing like it had been rewired. My chest ached worst of all.

I looked down.

The fourth mark, the heart brand, had fractured. Thin, jagged lines of glowing silver-gold split through my skin, tracing outward like lightning frozen in flesh. Not burning this time. Not exactly. It pulsed, like a heartbeat that didn’t belong to me.

Kael was the first to reach me. His shadow crossed mine as he knelt at my side. “Rory,” he whispered, like saying my name too loud might shatter me further.

I nodded, but it felt wrong. Like the movement belonged to someone else. “Where’s Thorne?”

“Here.” His voice
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