Chapter 217

*Elora*

“They’re not just dead,” Slo said, her voice tight as she knelt by the scorched trail. “They were incinerated.”

I stood over her, hand on my stomach though the child wasn’t inside me anymore. My body still felt stretched thin from the labor, as if her flame hadn’t just left me—but had taken something I couldn’t get back.

“She didn’t scream,” I murmured. “Didn’t cry.”

Kaelen stood further a