The tale of a man who brings death and a girl who denies it. ---- On the haunted mountain in the kingdom, they say there lived a witch. She was born a princess. But even before her birth, the priest declared her to be cursed and demanded her death. They poisoned the mother to kill the baby before she gave birth, but the baby was born out of the dead mother—a cursed child. Again and again, they tried to kill the baby but she miraculously survived every single attempt. Giving up, they abandoned her on the haunted mountain to die but she still survived on that barren land— A witch ‘Why won’t she die?’ Years later, the people finally had enough of the witch and decided to burn the mountain. But the Devil arrived to her rescue and took her with him from that burning place, because dying was not her destiny even then. Draven Amaris. The Black Dragon, who ruled over supernatural beings, the Devil who no one wished to cross a path with. He hated humans but this certain human girl would pull him towards her whenever she was in danger. ‘Is she really a human?’ He took the human with him and named this mysteriously tenacious girl “Ember”, a piece of glowing coal in a dying fire. A soul tainted with vengeance and the darkness of hell, would rise from the ashes and fulfil her revenge. ------ This is the second book from the series of The Devils and Witches. 1st book - Witch's daughter and the Devil's son. 3rd book- The Devil's Betrothed. All books are connected to each other but you can read them as stand-alone.
Leeora and Ember left for Ronan. When they entered the city, their arrival caught the attention of not only the local elves, but also the other residents and merchants along the way. For a small kingdom like Agartha, news travelled fast and it was easy to guess the significance of Ember's return to the elf city.
The people's reaction was something within Leeora's expectations, but the deeper they entered the city, the High Elder of the Wood Elves realized that even the tree spirits were looking restless.
'What's happening?'
Tree spirits were basically sentient plants with low intelligence. Unless their existences were directly threatened, they would not respond with this kind of agitation. They moved their branches around in a fluster, as if they were not happy or scared of something, causing the innocent bystanders in the streets to be alarmed.