Where the Emberblooms Burn Bright

to Redwood Creek when the sk

st the flames, then the choking

es were smudged wit

elders of the Stew

hope," Thorne said

g. Your healing, y

directly

rit burned bright within her, a legacy

granting resilience, and the a

o her, near death from an in

e of her own Hearthston

saved h

the cost, or s

ara said, her voice steady

ind him of his

lusive guardians

uring her energy, her Spi

ded, the air c

began to br

e Isabel

seemed to blink, she became Thor

s child, a child carrying its

ded the sacred Emberbloom flower,

spered in Th

voice like soft poison, "its powe

e lis

r, but now, with Isabelle at h

n of all Elara' s careful

tewards' ancestral lands, c

avior, was n

owned by the state, far from her people, far

l was swift