Chapter 30 Blood And Bond

The scent of ash lingered in the air long after Theron vanished. The battlefield, once a pristine stretch of forest, was now a graveyard of scorched trees and scorched earth. Smoke curled lazily upward toward a pale gray sky. The warriors stood still, the heat of the battle burned into their bones even as silence fell around them like an unwelcome fog. Selene stood at the center of it all, her flame flickering low now, as if exhausted. Her hands trembled at her sides, not from fear, but from the aftershock of power—of confronting what she might become.