ASHGRAVE REVISITED The Road Beneath the Smoke"We're here," Maera said quietly, pulling her cloak tighter as they crested the edge of a shattered ridge. The sky overhead was the colour of old bone, the clouds hanging low, thick with soot and silence. Beneath them stretched the forgotten grave-city of Ashgrave, once a sanctum of the Flameblood legacy. Now it was stone and shadow, entombed in blackened volcanic glass.Xavier stepped forward, his boots crunching over brittle obsidian. "So this is where they buried our ancestors.""They didn't bury them," Maera murmured. "They sealed them. With rites so ancient even the Emberpriests forgot the words."Ceres exhaled slowly. The air here burned a little in the lungs, as if the place remembered the war. "And you think this is where we'll find the Codex's echo?""I think it's where we'll find the truth," Maera said. "But the price will be blood."
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