Ravenna’s POV
The storm didn’t chase us.
It settled.
The sky went soft and dim, almost gentle, though the air buzzed with something that made my skin prickle. Thorn walked beside me in silence. Kalen trailed behind, his steps uneven, his breath too shallow. The three of us had moved through fire and visions and loops and everything in between, but this quiet felt heavier than all of it.
The trees around us had stopped burning days ago. Their branches grew back in slow pulses, silver leaves unfurling then fading like they weren’t sure if they should exist yet.
Maybe they felt like me.
Empty in places. Awake in others.
I stopped near the edge of a cliff. Below us, the valley spread out like a scar the world hadn’t decided to heal. The soil shimmered with faint streaks of silver, bu
