Elara POV
"Elara, stop," Liora's voice came from behind me as I crashed through the forest, branches whipping at my face. "Where are you going?"
"Away," I gasped, my lungs burning, "anywhere away from him."
I didn't make it far before my legs gave out, collapsing against a tree trunk, sliding down until I was sitting in the dirt with my head in my hands. "He killed children," I said, the words breaking, "he burned families alive, how am I supposed to, I can't."
Liora knelt beside me, her face sad and old. "I know," she said quietly, "I was there."
I looked up at her, "What?"
"The second m******e, the village of Riverside," she said, "I was alive then, I remember the smoke, I remember the screaming, I was just a girl, but I remember everything."
"Then why didn't you tell me?" I dema
