*** Still that night ***

*** Sasha ***

One moment I was wrapped against Kael’s warmth, and the next, I stood barefoot on cold floor, my breath taking in the air in front of me. The sky above was dark but was lit with scattered stars.

There was silence for a moment,

Then I heard her.

A voice like bells, haunting, and familiar.

**”Time is slipping away."**

I turned. I didn’t remember moving, but suddenly I was standing in front of a destroyed temple, cracked pillars of moonstone ...