Burning Cinders (Reign of Fae Book 4) by CK Dawn

Author:CK Dawn [Dawn, CK]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

The marsh swallowed her whole. Every thought she once had, every memory, was invaded by her living tomb. The unshakable downward spiral into madness was inevitable. Despair was taking hold.

My name is--? She tried to pull the knowledge from her mind, trying to keep it and her most precious memories safe somewhere else. Where? She didn’t know. There was no safe place in the Hamadryad or within herself. Mary Bra--? Letter by letter, memory by memory, the forest was stripping her identity away.

Leave.

Not one of us.

Get out! Threats from the nymphs surrounded her.

She didn’t belong, but she couldn’t leave. Trapped for eternity, she withered. Her long fiery hair weaved into her tomb’s branches. The last of her vibrancy was being stripped away.

The nymphs cried out every time another of her beautiful fiery leaves fell. Vibrant red and orange hues faded to dull browns as leaf after leaf tumbled to the frigid wet mud below. The nymphs’ tears became her tears as rivulets of sadness wept down her own frozen trunk encased in the same barrier of ice.

She gathered all her magic and strength, hoping somehow he would hear her plea. With her last corporeal breath, she screamed her familiar’s name. “Tenebris!”

Days and nights blurred together. Over and over the monotonous cycle of light and dark repeated. Random birds and insects flew into her branches, only to leave again. At some point a storm swelled and frightened everything away.

She was all alone. Day and night, light and dark, the flatness droned on.

A jarring thud into her branches disturbed her. Had it only been a day since she’d woken or an entire year into her prison sentence? She didn’t know. Giant wings flapped wildly before a massive black raven settled and perched in her crook. Tenebris! Mary’s frayed memories stirred.

Her familiar whimpered like a sad, lost puppy.

Slowly, inch by inch, her branches arched nearer, trying to console him.

Days and nights melded together again, but she was no longer alone. Tenebris’s cries attempted to keep her grounded in the present. His warm body begged her to remain whole.

Constant forward motion did not exist in the Hamadryad Forest though. Time dwindled down to quick flashes, single images in between endless darkness. Until the next still picture was revealed, she slept. The flashes were the only things that punctuated her slow steady plummet into madness.

She slept.

She woke.

She slept.

Over and over, mundane nothingness repeated itself.

Then, something new.

A shock wave sounded throughout the Hamadryad Forrest, pounding the air like a fist and rumbling deep into the ground. The loud boom resonated all the way from the depths of her roots up to the tips of her branches. She roused and stirred within her tomb, determined to remain awake. Her familiar rustled his feathers. He had felt the disturbance as well, reaffirming it wasn’t just the insanity the forest wrought. She knew a rumbling of that magnitude affecting all of Fae meant only one thing. A massive loss of life had occurred somewhere in the realm. The vibration piqued her interest and the possible meaning tapped at her memory.

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