The earth gave way beneath her.She gasped, reaching for a root that tore free in her hand. The world tilted, and then she was tumbling—branches, rocks, pain, the snap of bone like a thunderclap in her ears. When she finally stopped rolling, she lay in the hollow between two jutting stones, breath punched out of her lungs, her right leg screaming.“Help,” she croaked, barely a whisper. “Somebody—”Then a ripple of green light flared above her.A portal opened—a shimmer like air folding in on itself—and from it stepped Kira, silver-haired and radiant, her eyes wide with alarm. Behind her came Thorn, his dark wings sweeping the pine needles as he knelt beside Jenna.“Don’t move,” Thorn said, voice calm but commanding. “You’ve broken the femur clean through.”“I—I didn’t want to bother anyone,” Jenna gasped, shaking. “I just fell—”“You’re lucky the mountain called to us,” Kira said, already channeling light into her palms. “We were cloaking the northern ridge when we felt your pain flar
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