ELARAI crawled through darkness with one hand pressed against the tunnel floor and the other protecting my stomach.Each breath hurt. Smoke had followed me into the passage before the stone barrier closed, leaving my throat raw and my chest tight. I could no longer hear the fire behind me, but the silence was worse. Somewhere beneath the ruins, the woman who claimed to be my mother’s sister had stayed behind wearing my ring.I did not know whether she was alive.I kept moving.The tunnel narrowed until I had to bend low. My knees struck loose stones, and twice I stopped because dizziness made the walls seem to shift around me. I had no light except a faint glow from cracks in the old ceiling.Then pain tightened across my lower stomach.I froze.“No.”The word came out as a whisper.I waited for the pain to pass, but another cramp followed. My hand moved beneath my coat, and when I pulled it back, my fingers were stained with blood.Fear emptied my mind.The fire, Kael, the stranger,
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