I AM THE ONLY PERSON THE VILLAIN CANNOT KILL
Above the dead woman's head, faint but still visible, a number continued to glow, ticking downward with the same slow, steady rhythm it always had.
47.
The woman had died with forty seven days still remaining on her countdown.
Elara's blood ran cold. She had never heard of such a thing. The countdown never lied. It could not be wrong. Every soul in Avelune trusted it as the one true law of the world, immovable and absolute.
But here was a woman lying dead in the market square, her number still counting down as though her body had not yet received the message that her time was over.
Kael rose slowly to his feet, his eyes dark with something that looked almost like dread, and when he spoke, hi