Betrayed by My Own Child

Summary

The last male Phoenix had fallen to ash and memory, leaving the females of our kind to drink from the River of Genesis to continue our lineage.

And I, Elara, the one with the greatest potential to birth a Progenitor Phoenix of old, turned my back on the river. Before the disbelieving eyes of my entire clan, I chose instead to leap into the Pyre Abyss.

In my last life, I had poured my very soul, every last drop of my essence, into birthing the most noble of all fledglings—a Golden Phoenix.