CROWNED BY BLOOD
In the distance, impossible, beautiful and terrifying, a seam split the sky.
The Forsaken Gate, I realized with a shock. The barrier between this realm and the world of the living, the threshold that had been sealed when the Cursemaker first dragged me here, was forced open in some moment of desperate strength, by my daughter.
My daughter, who should have been recovering from wounds that nearly killed her, who should have been mourning the fall of our ancestral home, who should have been anywhere but here, attempting something that had never been done before.
And she was not alone.