Semua Bab Bound by Blood, Fated to the Two Alphas : Bab 201 - Bab 204

ELARA'S POVThree days after leaving the resistant town, messengers found us. The first one rode up on a tired horse, a young man with g desperate eyes."Please. Our village. The healing stopped halfway. There's resistance. Shadow anchors we can't break."Before I could answer, another messenger arrived. Then another. Then two more.All the same story. Blocked healing. Shadow resistance. People dying while purification waves stopped at their borders.Looked at Kael. At Ronan. At baby guardian sleeping in my arms."We can't reach them all," I said. Voice flat. Defeated. "Not personally. Not in time."Ronan counted the messengers. "Five places. Maybe more we haven't heard from yet. Could take weeks to visit each one.""People don't have weeks."The moon guardian appeared. Translucent. Standing among the messengers though they couldn't see her."There is another way," she said."What way?""Teach others to do what you did." Simple. Obvious. Why hadn't I thought of it?"Teach them? To bre

ELARA'S POVThe morning after the ceremony, the sun was barely up, already people were waiting outside our rooms.Not celebrating anymore, these ones looked desperate, opened the door. A woman stood there. Middle-aged, leaning on a crutch. My left leg ended at the knee."Please," she said. "They said you could heal anything. Can you... can you give me back my leg?"My stomach dropped. "The disease took it?""Shadow corruption. Spread so fast. Healers had to remove it or I'd die." Her eyes pleaded. "But you purified the shadow. Can't you reverse what it did?"I wanted to say yes. I wanted to promise miracles."I can't reverse what's already gone. I'm sorry."Her face crumpled. "But you're the champion. You saved everyone.""I stopped the disease. But what it already took..." Shook my head. "Some things can't be healed."She left crying. Broke something in my chest watching her go.More came throughout the day. Man with chronic pain. A girl who couldn't speak anymore. A boy who lost his