The Last Heiress
A woman knelt beside what might have been a child, though it was hard to tell.
In the distance, I could hear more movement, more people trying to salvage what they could from the catastrophe.
"There's another one," a voice said nearby.
I spun around, my hand immediately going to the knife at my hip. I'd never had to fight anyone before, but right now, the blade felt like the most honest thing in my life.
A boy stood about ten paces away from me. He couldn't have been much older than I was, maybe eighteen or nineteen, with dark hair matted to his skull and clothes that had once been fine before they were covered in soot and worse.