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THE TRIAL OF ASH AND FLAME PART ONE

POV: ARAYA

The forest was quiet again.

Not the quiet of peace—

But the kind that comes before a scream.

I walked barefoot.

The moss beneath me withered, scorched dry without flame. No birds sang. No insects chirped. Even the wind—once a soft mourner whispering in my ear—had turned away from ...