Ivy POV

I woke up standing. I didn’t know how I got there. One moment I was sleeping under Lucien’s cloak in the underground hall, and the next I was in a place I had never seen before. Fire spread across the ground in every direction. The sky above me was dark and heavy. There was no sound except my own breathing.

I looked around fast, my heart racing. The heat didn’t burn me, but it wrapped around me so tightly that it felt hard to breathe. I tried calling out but my voice sounded ...