Chapter 111

*Elora*

It started with the shadows.

Small things at first—details I couldn’t account for. A cut on my palm I didn’t remember earning. A scorch mark on the chamber wall where none had been the day before. Waking up with soot under my nails. Standing somewhere with no recollection of how I got there. It was like my body kept moving while my mind refused to follow. Like the flame inside me—so recent