AVELORA
The word made breathable air disappear.
Mate
The silence that followed was deafening, broken only by the crackle of the fire and the shallow sound of my own breathing. I stood completely frozen, the exhaustion in my muscles entirely forgotten as the world tilted violently.
My eyes snapped directly to Khyrix
His body was rigid, I waited for him to say something, to deny it. He certainly hasn't said the man was lying. He just stood there, his fists clenching so tightly that the skin over his knuckles looked ready to split. The golden hue in his eyes bled out into the darkness, burning with a mix of hostility and guilt that he couldn’t mask fast enough.
He knew. He had known the entire time.
"Avelora," Khyrix began, his voice dropping into a low rumble as he finally turne
