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- Author: Rachel L. Schade
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My world is ending. The horror of this realization made my mind reel.
Smoke hovered over Evren like a living thing, twisting past
Wanderer’s Rest, past the shops along the streets, and into the hills
and fields beyond, pressing toward the villagers’ homes. Evren Garden was
on fire, flames crackling and snapping at tree branches and devouring
flowers. Rev and Lyanna were running, screaming, enveloped in thick black
smoke as the flames leapt around them, licking at their backs. Consuming
them.
I woke screaming. Tears clung to my eyelashes and blurred my vision.
Hard earth pressed against my cheek and the scent of smoke stung my nose.
Yards away, the nestrae were roasting meat over the dozens of fires
scattered about their camp, but I lay in the dirt, stomach clenching from
hunger and grief.
Maybe they were done with me now; I’d served their purpose by
helping them break the barrier. Or maybe they would continue to keep me
alive to torture me with the horrors they would unleash on my kingdom, all
so they could sacrifice my grief to their goddess Nesrelle.
Chains clanked as I lifted my shackled hands to clutch at the pendants I
wore about my neck: my mother’s diamond star, Gare’s gold circle,
Jennah’s diamond-studded silver constellation of Shyla, and the white and
yellow gold rendering of Vehgar set with diamonds Gillen had worn in
memory of his father. I wore them like a record of the people I had lost. As
I felt the cool metal against my fingertips, their physical presence brought
me comfort.
Nearby, Narek shifted uncomfortably against his shackles. “You
considered breaking it yourself, didn’t you?” His voice was hard as he
spoke of the barrier, now broken because of me. “They never would have
seen your vision if you hadn’t let yourself entertain the idea—if you hadn’t
let your emotions overwhelm you…”
Slowly, I forced myself to a sitting position, the world rolling and
rocking around me like the tumultuous sea. Too many days of torture, of
little water and food, of fear and worry, had me weak. I turned my head to
find him staring at me, but for all the hardness in his tone, his gaze was
broken and lost. My mouth was dry as dust, so I licked my lips.
“I had a different vision, before they brought us to the barrier,” I
explained slowly. “My aunt was pleading, praying…it was a true vision, not
a nestred trick. I’m sure of it.” My voice cracked. “Gillen…he cannot die.
Misroth needs him.”
“Your kingdom will fall,” Narek said. His dark eyes were like
bottomless pools of grief, reminding me of all the loss and horror he’d
survived. “All the loved ones you left behind are in danger. The towns and
cities will burn. The nestrae will be chanting to Nesrelle about all their
sacrifices before year’s end.”
“Do you think I don’t know?” I dug my hands into the dirt, squeezing it
between my fingers, watching it slip away like everything else in my life
was. My shackles cut into my wrists, a sharp bite of pain that kept my
senses keen.
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