Marked in the Middle
“You don’t come back from a burst like that, Nora. Whatever Kael tried to do… it burned him out.”
She swallowed hard. The wind carried a faint smell, ozone, char, something like iron. And beneath it, a trace of something familiar. Power. Wild, unstable, and still alive.
Lira limped closer, her arm wrapped in a rough bandage, eyes scanning the blackened ruins. “Then what’s that?” she said, pointing to a faint shimmer beneath the ash. A pulse of gold, faint but steady, like a heartbeat buried underground.
Grayson rose slowly. “That shouldn’t still be active.”
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