SYLAVRA POVThree days later, we stood at the heart of the spreading void.The scar in reality had grown to the size of a city, and it was still expanding. In twelve hours, it would reach the last refugees from Stormfang.In twenty-four hours, it would reach the border towns. In seventy-two hours, it would consume the central continent and begin spreading toward the other kingdoms.Unless someone stopped it."There has to be another way," I said for the hundredth time.But I was already walking toward the scar. Already moving closer to the thing that sang in my blood. The void recognized me. It wanted me. And I was finally ready to give it what it wanted.Kaelen followed, his hand gripping mine so hard my bones ached."I should do it," he said. "Not you. Me. The curse—""Won't work on the void," I finished. "The curse is part of this world. The void is before and beyond it. It would consume you and keep spreading."The edge of the scar was visible now. A boundary where reality just...
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