Kael’s POV
The village was still, wrapped in a quiet.
It was the kind of silence that didn’t come from the absence of sound but from a rare sense of safety.
It felt like a temporary haven.
I wasn’t used to these moments, but I enjoyed spending it with Elara.
For so long, my life had been an endless cycle of war, strategy, and survival.
Even before this journey with Elara, I had always been fighting for peace and protection.
Here I was sitting, beneath the soft glow of the moon, with nothing but the crackling fire and Elara’s presence beside me, I felt something foreign. Something unsettling.
Peace.
It wasn’t something I had ever allowed myself to embrace. Peace was fleeting, fragile, something that could be ripped away in an instant. I had learned long ago not to trust it. But
