5
Seeing Theron’s urgency as he guided Kane and me down the hill, the knots in my stomach only tightened. I asked what was going on, but he said it was better if I saw it with my own eyes. Whatever that meant.
Many things crossed my mind. The revenants and red alchemists were coming. Damara was at the edge of the forest, taunting me with a heart flower in her hand. Dragons and wyverns were ready to attack us. A group of humans hiking a trail got lost and stumbled onto our festival.
But I wasn’t expecting what he showed me.
Halting beside the other warriors at the bottom of the hill, just past the festival tents, Theron pointed to the trees a few feet ahead of us. “That.”
A gasp escaped my lips.
A patch of blackened dead earth slowly spread over to the bushes and trees, consuming and
