Discordant Note | The Beginning After the End SI - Chapter 268: Bloodtie

... I’d spent only a week and a half in the Hearth, but it felt like a lifetime. Between the constant talks with my clanmermbers, the stories I gradually got to hear, and the time I’d spent every day with them, I felt as if I’d known each phoenix for years instead of a few days.

“Well, this is it,” Diella said matter-of-factly as she led our little group forward. “Our kitchens.”

I struggled not to gape as I stared at the scene before me, because it wasn’t really a kitchen. It was lik ...