The sudden darkness was instantaneous, a suffocating blanket dropped over the glittering wealth of the ballroom. But it didn't stay dark for long.
I turned around in absolute alarm, my hands flying to my chest as the frantic screams of the high-society crowd echoed off the high stone ceilings. The ambient, silver moonlight was violently swallowed by a sudden, terrifying orange glow that erupted from the eastern wing of the hall. I blinked through the sudden glare, and my eyes met with a wall of blazing, ravenous fire.
“Impossible,” I muttered, the words catching in my dry throat as I stared at the rapidly spreading inferno.
My mind spun in a frantic loop, trying to make sense of the nightmare unfolding before me. I knew the structural layout of this event. I had spent the last month wat
