Selene POV

The world beyond the gate stole my breath.

This wasn’t…

This couldn’t be…

I stood frozen. Staring at devastation that shouldn’t exist.

The beautiful world I’d seen from the compound windows…the thriving forest, the elegant buildings, the peaceful territory…it was all gone in a blink of an eye.

In its place was a wasteland. No, in fact this was something much worse.

The ground was scorched black. Great cracks split the earth like wounds. Dead trees stood like ...