*Saoirse*

The world seemed to exhale, releasing a breath it had held for far too long. It wasn’t an immediate change.

Pyroth’s reign of terror had done too much damage for the realm to recover quickly. It was going to take a long time for this realm to return to its former glory. But I heard the realm's tentative promise to renew itself after Pyroth's tyranny.

"Look," Rhys murmured beside me, his voice a raspy shadow of its usual strength. We sat on a ledge ...