CRACK!
Dust settled over the charred ruins of the building. Blackened beams jutted out like skeletal fingers, and broken bricks crumbled under each step as Kael moved through the devastation. His coat fluttered in the wind, the air thick with ash and the bitter stench of smoke.
His boots crushed broken glass and twisted metal, his eyes scanning with urgency—searching.
Burn marks seared the walls, and fallen rafters littered the scorched floor. Kael ignored the sting of blood on his knuckles from prying away rubble. His breath was low and sharp, his brows furrowed, movements growing more frantic by the second.
"Where is it…" he muttered, voice hard and strained as he searched around frantically.
Then his eyes widened.
Half-buried beneath a charred beam and broken stone, something glimmered faintly in the dim light.
Kael dropped to his knees, yanking debris aside with shaking hands, until finally—
There it was.
The egg.
