The Last Emberblade

n lazy flakes, covering the trail behind Aric Stormrune. His boots crunched softly agains

e tucked away in silence. It was a forgotten place, tucked far from the eyes of kings

m came again

word of fire. A voic

awaken t

s what Maelis always told him. Just ec

eat drifted from a nearby house. Familiar. Comforting. But something f

tern ridge. Not the soft curl of a cooking fir

d his pac

market stalls. His breath caught in

hrine was

symbols of the Emberblades. The statue of the sw

unded. This was

in the flames. Cloaked in black,

voice said-deep

ed in his chest. A warmth, slow but gro

strapped to his back. The one he'd never d

inside him w