C384 ASH FROM ABOVE

"We have to move, Aria. If we stay in the open, the sky will finish what the King started," Elias said, his voice a gravelly rasp.

He stood over her, his chest heaving as the last of his beast-like fur melted back into smooth, sweat-slicked skin. Aria looked up from the dry earth, her fingers still curled tightly around the baby’s cloth wrap. Above them