Chapter 60 Embers And Echoes

The Hollow Flame had allied himself with them, but at a chilling cost. The earth near the campsite no longer cooled. Even when the sun fell beneath the dunes and night colored the world in shadows, the air seemed to ripple with the leftover heat, as if the old fire had seeped into the land itself, becoming part of the bones of the earth. Selene had not slept.