Chapter 64

Dravos's mind betrayed him with images he had not called for.

Not of Sivya, the Azurelune Beta's daughter, whose delicate smile now sat across from him.

But of another—Elara—seated in the cockpit of a roaring aircraft, steel eyes fixed on the horizon as the machine clawed toward the clouds. The memory of her daring maneuvers, the impossible aerial rolls, the sharp pull of wings against the sky—it