THE ECLIPSE DREAM
Elara did not remember falling asleep.
One moment she had been lying beside Kael immediately after the training, listening to the steady rhythm of his breathing, feeling the warmth of his arm draped protectively across her waist… and the next, she was standing barefoot in a place that did not belong to the waking world.
The sky above her was wrong.
It was not night.
It was not day.
It was both.
The sun hung suspended in the sky, but something dark was slowly swallowing it whole. A crescent of light clung stubbornly to its edge, trembling like a dying ember.
An eclipse.
The air felt thick and metallic, pressing against her lungs. The ground beneath her feet was smooth stone, cold and ancient, stretching endlessly in every direction. There were no trees. No pack gr
