C124 THE THREE FAMILIES MOVE, AND WAR FOR ELARA BEGINS

The Abyss swallowed Elara entirely.

As she dropped, she felt her body stretching, folding, burning, reborn again and again—like a thousand copies of herself were being torn away. But she kept her eyes open. She held Damon’s voice in her heart. She kept her vow alive.

Because she wasn’t falling to her death.

She was falling to ascend.

But above the abyss—far, far above—war was commencing