POV: ELARA Arin’s scream hits me before anything else. It’s so sharp it makes my whole body jerk. Then the smell hits, burning dirt, burning skin, burning something that shouldn’t even be real. My heart goes straight into my throat.I grab his hand without thinking and yank it up, and the second I see the ground under it, my stomach drops. There’s a shape burned into the dirt. A crescent. The same one on his skin. The same one that’s been following us since the day he was born.“Arin,” I say, and my voice breaks in the middle. “Baby, look at me. Look at me.”He’s shaking so hard his teeth click. His hand is still glowing and getting brighter, like it’s trying to light the whole cave on fire. I grab his shoulders and he’s so hot I flinch, but I don’t let go.“Mommy it hurts,” he whimpers, and I swear something in my chest actually cracks.Kael rushes toward us but stops a couple steps away, like he hit a wall. I can feel him staring at that mark. His eyes go sharp, like he knows somet
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