Incubus Reborn: Sleepless promise
“If we turn the crowd again, if we show them the truth in this moment, he will not recover.”
Saraphina’s eyes burned as she stared at the pyre, at the trembling figures huddled beside it. Old Mara’s silver hair glinted in the torchlight, bound at her wrists.
“No,” she said. “We will not let him burn them. Not one. Tonight, we show him fire cannot be chained.”
Lucian’s hand brushed hers. “Together.”
She nodded, fire rising in her chest, fierce and unyielding. “Together.”
And with that, they slipped into the shadows of the west gate square — toward Malrec’s purge, toward the pyre, toward the moment that would decide whether the city’s flame would die in smoke or blaze against the night.