C125 THE REALM SHOOK DURING THE NIGHT

Damon did not feel his own body anymore.

Everything inside him burned—violently, endlessly—like a sun burning itself apart from the inside. His flames were no longer crimson, no longer royal, no longer living.

They were void-black.

They consumed even the air surrounding him.

He stood in the shattered courtyard of the Flame Citadel, flames whirling off him in wild, poisonous waves