Chapter 106

The scent of damp pine and wet earth always grew stronger right before a storm, but tonight, the air carried a different weight. It smelled of silver, iron, and finality.

The valley below the jagged ridge was blanketed in a thick, low-hanging mist that swallowed the moonlight. Kaia stood silently beside Ryker at the edge of the tree line, her gaze fixed on the entrance of an abandoned iron mine ca