Elara POV
The blood wouldn't wash off completely, no matter how hard I scrubbed my hands in the stream.
Pink water ran between my fingers but I could still see it under my nails, still smell it in my hair, still taste copper on my tongue.
"You need to eat something," Liora said from behind me, her voice careful like she was talking to something wild that might bolt.
"I killed it with my bare hands," I said, staring at my reflection in the water.
"I don't even remember doing it, one moment I was in the ruins and the next I was standing over a corpse laughing."
"That's what the curse does," Morrigan appeared beside us, her massive form blocking out the early morning light.
"It takes you piece by piece until there's nothing left but hunger and rage."
Three days had passed since that m
