The Luna's Deception
A single flower, silver white, growing directly in the center of the scorched earth where my mother had fallen, its petals bright against ash that should have killed anything attempting to grow there for years, if not decades.
"Kieran." My voice came out barely above a whisper. "Look."
He followed my gaze and went utterly still, staring at the flower with the same disbelief I felt spreading through my own chest.
"That should not be possible," he said quietly. "Nothing grows in soil this scorched. Not this fast. Not ever, from what I understand of fire like this."
I reached toward it carefully, fingers hovering just above the delicate petals without touching them yet, feeling a familiar hum b