Where the Emberblooms Burn Bright

a healer blessed with

aring my essence, mending him when no one else

ld, a powerful new lif

ambitious and cold, whisp

child' s nascent power

red Emberblooms our child's Spirit needed, imprison

iding the Spirit of my unborn ch

nipulation, cruelly demanded I

ne because he destroyed the Em

ieve me, beating

Isabelle displayed, he exe

entire community, includi

e Spirit from my chest, ending my life

n I saved become

verything – my child, my

Spirit that wasn't there, a raw

im a piece of my own Spirit, th

sed like trash, something

lted, refusing to let

rth from the flames, f

e. I am the Reckoning; justic