NARRATOR

At the front of the army, a man wearing a helmet adorned with black feathers watched the exchange with piercing blue eyes.

His sharpened hearing caught every word of the conversation—something the other Elementals couldn’t perceive from this distance.

The restless horse beneath him shifted uneasily, but it wasn’t nearly as unsettled as his own racing heart.

An opportunity. This was the miracle he had prayed to the heavens for.

The man on horseback—the Duke of Everhart—held a great secr