He looked at Vesper. "Run," he said. But his voice was already ash.
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: scorched earth map
After seventeen days, they found it.
The Well of Tears had never been a place of crying. He looked at Vesper
"Why do you need the Well?" Vesper asked, kicking a skull that crumbled to dust. "Nothing grows there. The old songs say it was a place of crying." He looked at Vesper. "Run