Elara’s POV We stood on the ridge, frozen. The woman wasn’t there anymore, but her silver-eyed gaze seemed burned into the night air. “Did you see that?” Rylan whispered, his voice tense. “She saw us. And she waved at us.” “We need to move. Now,” Lucian said, his voice urgent and low. He pushed me gently behind him, his eyes scanning the trees where the woman had vanished. “A full Oracle, walking so free? That's not possible. Unless…” “Unless Kael already has one,” Sela completed, her hand practically placed on her knife while she carefully monitors. A cold dread settled in my stomach. Was that what a completed Oracle looked like? Powerful, yet calm, walking alone in the night without an atom of fear? “She didn’t feel like Kael,” I said, surprising myself. “Her…her signal doesn't see

