Chapter 24 The Warning In Ashes

• The training ground still reeked of blood and scorched earth. I’d barely slept since the battle. Every time I closed my eyes, I saw shadows with glowing red eyes. Silas’s presence was like a stain on the world—one we hadn’t managed to wipe clean.
• Selene hadn’t said much since she revealed the second half of my prophecy. I hadn’t asked either. I needed space to breathe, to think.
• But time wasn’t on our side.