Kara’s body still trembled as she sat on the edge of her bed, her breath uneven, her hands clutching the sheets as if anchoring herself to reality. The darkness of the void was gone, and her mother's lingering voice had faded, but the weight of the truth still pressed down on her chest.
Her mother had known.
The Destiny Book had shown Anaxia the future—Kara’s future—and it had been so terrible, so catastrophic, that the Elementals themselves had wanted to intervene. They had planned to take her to Oxyna, to keep her away from the Shadow King and the Petals of Evil, because if she ever fell into their hands…
The world would never recover.
Kara squeezed her eyes shut, willing the shaking in her limbs to stop. She had faced war, betrayal, and the looming threat of an enemy she barely unde
