Chapter 23
Rayna
I knew we weren’t in my world anymore the second the air changed.
It wasn’t temperature, exactly. It was… density. Heavier, hotter, like the space itself expected fire at any moment.
We stepped out of what looked like a plain service stairwell and into a wide courtyard. The sky above was real sky—no cavern ceiling—but the walls around us were too tall and too smooth to be anything but deliberate. Dark stone. Metal walkways. Floodlights mounted high, pointed down instead of up.
Emberflame territory.
Miron had said the name like it meant something solid, something sharp. Seeing it was different. This place felt like a cross between a military base and a fortress and a training yard.
And every pair of eyes in it landed on me.
Enforcers stood in formation across the ya
