Ember Academy
"Can you read any of it?"
"Some." He turned another page, and another, and then stopped, his breath catching audibly in the quiet library. "Here. This survived."
Sera looked where he pointed, and even in the dim light, even with half the page scorched black and unreadable, one line remained clear, ink dark and certain against the ruin around it.
The old fire does not burn the world. It burns the lies.
"What does that mean?" Sera's voice had dropped to barely more than breath. "The old fire, that's what you called mine before, isn't it? The Founder's fire?"