She had no idea. “The earth between us has been scorched and salted so badly that nothing else can grow. If at one point there was a flame, now there is nothing left but dying embers.” Her hands stilled. “But embers mean that the fire is still there. It can be revived. You only have to breathe on them to bring them back to life. And the tiniest of embers can create the mightiest of flames.”
