Elara pov
I woke up to the smell of dirt and blood.
My face pressed against cold ground that definitely wasn't the inside of our hollow tree…
Dawn light filtered through leaves above me and for a moment I couldn't remember where I was or how I'd gotten here.
Then I tried to move and pain shot through every muscle in my body like I'd been running for hours.
My clothes were torn, great ragged holes in the fabric that hadn't been there before.
Dirt caked under my fingernails so thick it looked like I'd been digging, and my mouth, god my mouth tasted like copper, like I'd been chewing on metal or something worse.
I sat up slowly and that's when I saw them, Liora and Kael standing about ten feet away.
Both of them staring at me with the exact same expression, fear, raw and undisguised f
