I stood, leaving Zion on his knees, lost in a painful trance. His tremors echoed through my heart, but I couldn’t afford to fall apart.

Not now.

Elward's voice broke through the suffocating silence, his tone sharp with confusion and anger.

"What is all this?" he demanded, his black eyes narrowing as they fixed on our enemy—on the man who had once been one of our own. 

A slow, mocking smile spread across the enemy’s face. He looked at Elward with disdain, the ...