Prologue

In the far reaches of a forgotten coast, where wind and sea have long whispered of things lost to time, a boy named Kael finds a stone unlike any other..smooth, dark, and marked with rings that shimmer faintly in shadow. It bears no voice, yet stirs with ancient memory, and from the moment he touches it, the world begins to shift. Old names stir. Watchers walk. And fires long buried begin to breathe once more. Who cast the silence that binds the world? What lies beyond the seventh flame? And why, in the heart of the hush, does the wind begin to sing again?