So, the humans demand our help. G’shídrian’s mindvoice was laced with dark colors and turbulent snippets of memory. I have little left to offer. The Shadow has targeted us for defying him. Several blazes have been snuffed out.
Roxanne gasped, covering her mouth in horror. That can’t be. The Flame’shikrim are reborn when they die!
We can only be reborn if our souls remain intact, he explained. The Severed Six use necromagic against us, weaving a spell that destroys our souls. It rots us from the inside, and when we turn to ash, we do not rise. Hundreds of my people have died the final death.
Roxanne shivered despite G’shídrian’s radiant heat. She’d seen that spell in action—it was how the Severed Six had murdered Kraken. She couldn’t bring her friends into this war if they were so vulner
