My Dairy

Previously

…She thought of Mille, playing her toy piano, a picture of innocent contentment. Elara knew her own path was far more complex, far more dangerous. But it was her path, and she was determined to walk it, no matter the cost. “I’m ready,” she said, her voice firm. The ancient map, hidden beneath her floorboard, felt like a burning ember in her mind, and the promise of the Sunstone, a beacon in the encroaching darkness. She knew, with a chilling certainty, that Silas’s debt was only the beginning of the shadows they would have to face.