Chapter 26 A New Threat Rises

• CHAPTER 26 – A New Threat Rises
• The night air was sharp and heavy with frost, curling like a blade against Lena’s skin as she stood alone outside the training ring. The stars above blinked through a veil of fast-moving clouds, but the moon was nowhere to be seen tonight.
• It should’ve been comforting—this darkness. The kind she’d grown used to since Kieran had taken her in and reshaped her into something harder, fiercer. But tonight, the shadows felt different. As if they were watching. As if something ancient had stirred.