Chapter 212

• Aurélie’s POV
• Voices called for me from the sky, from the clouds themselves. Like gods speaking down to the forgotten. Yet I was alone, stranded in a vast wasteland.
• Nothing surrounded me but sand and brittle, lifeless plants, scorched beyond recognition by the sun. The heat was unbearable. The sun burned into my skin, seeping deep enough that I could feel my blood boiling like I’d been dropped into a pan of scalding water, unable to climb free no matter how hard I tried.