Chapter 186

• Kavian’s POV
• Draco and the soldiers descended on the rebel camp with a loud, savage cry, steel and boots tearing through the forest’s fragile calm. A heaviness settled in my chest, slow and sinking, the bitter thought pressing in—my warning had been ignored. They were all going to die.
• I was just about to rise from where I hid, to slip away before the slaughter burned itself into my memory, when everything suddenly went quiet.