Chapter 17 Epilogue

Crimson eyes blinked open in the pre-dawn gloom of the hidden cave. Goldie, now a precocious toddler with an unsettlingly intelligent gaze, reached out a tiny hand, his fingernails subtly elongated, and touched the rough-hewn wall. A faint tremor ran through the stone.

Two years had passed since the heartstone's chilling surge. Elara, fiercely prot