MOON OF ASHES
For a heartbeat none of them moved, only lay sprawled on the forest floor, panting.
Then the archway flickered one final time and vanished. Behind them, Black Hollow collapsed inward like a dying lung, sucking its own edges into a single dark point before blinking out.
Silas shifted back, still holding Ava. His bare skin was streaked with ash and claw marks. He brushed her hair out of her face, eyes searching hers. “You’re alright,” he murmured, as if saying it might make it true. “You’re alright.”
But Ava wasn’t sure. The dagger still glowed faintly against her chest. And beneath the chorus of her friends’ ragged breaths, she could still hear Elias’s voice, a whisper threading through her p
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