As she watched over the burning ruins of the basin, she wondered if war only came because her family willed it. Would her brother have made the same decision she had? Would her father have found another reason to take up arms? But that night was not the time for guilt. It was a night for courage. With the help of Gella and Axel, they’d lined up the dead bodies of the soldiers from both E’ronoh and Eiram and built a pyre. Only flame could burn the things these stranded soldiers endured. Pinned down in a cave, without food or water, cut off from home, fighting a war they didn’t even know might
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