Chapter 188

*Elora*

I didn’t dream that night. I remembered.

The world around me bled from color to ash, light draining from every edge until only haze remained. Not the kind that rose from fire—but the kind that stained memory. The kind that lingers long after the war is over.

I stood in a clearing that wasn’t mine, in boots that didn’t fit, wrapped in a wolfskin cloak I’d never seen. But I knew the place. T