At the center stood the Shade.
Behind her, the thirty-seven villagers gasped back to life, coughing up dust, blinking in the sudden return of light and wind and birdsong. Mapona volume 2
Mapona felt it then—the sliver of the First Silence lodged near her heart. She had thought it was a scar from the battle. A price paid. But it was more. It was a door. At the center stood the Shade