Bound by the Cursed Moon
I did not waste breath arguing, because the flower stall behind us had already gone up in a sheet of orange flame, smoke rolling thick across the market square while vendors scattered screaming in every direction, and somewhere in that chaos Marisol stood frozen, staring at the fire consuming the only life she had ever known, her mouth open around a sound that would not come.
“Kieran, the flames are not natural,” I said, grabbing his arm hard enough to bruise, my own fear having nothing to do with heat or smoke and everything to do with the color licking along the edges of the blaze. “Look at the color. That is wolfsbane fire. Someone wanted this stall burned specifically, not the whole mark