Scorched Earth Map -

The white glass shattered. A pillar of silent, white-hot flame erupted from the Well, not destroying, but completing . It consumed Kaelen's shadow first, then his flesh, then the tortoise shell map. And in the last nanosecond before his eyes turned to vapor, he saw the truth:

He didn't answer. He couldn't admit the truth: he wanted to find a dead spot so absolute, so perfectly annihilated, that even the Scorch had moved on. A place of negative heat. A cold scar. scorched earth map

Then the heat returned—not from the ground, but from inside his own chest. The white glass shattered