ADRIAN POV

The world went white.

One second there was fire and screaming; the next, nothing. And then light… it was so bright it burned through my eyes. Then, silence.

When it faded, half the fortress was gone. Smoke rose in thin columns. The ground was littered with ash instead of bodies. Wolves that had been dead seconds ago dissolved into dust and vanished into the air.

No one spoke and no one moved.

Kai stood beside me, heaving heavily. “What the hell was that?”

I didn’t ...