Chapter 29: Fire Dreams
(Elena's POV)
I could still see the night the rogues broke into the Citadel. The sound of their howls, the sound of steel and fang hitting each other, and the taste of smoke in my lungs. But the mark stayed with me longer than the fight.
I still had the scroll in my hand when Lucian pulled me out of the falling library. The moon-shaped scar on my wrist had started to pulse. Not softly like before, but violently, like something under my skin was trying to wake up.
I couldn't sleep now, hours later. The air was thick with the smell of iron and rain, and my body shook under the furs. The Citadel was half-destroyed, and guards walked around the halls all night.
Lucian hadn't come back since the fight. He went to the western wall with the generals and told me to sta
