2. Chapter 2: Ember and Ice

The silver-haired woman — Eiris Valdecrow, a witch of the Hollow Covenant — reluctantly takes the amnesiac man, now calling himself Ren, as her traveling companion through the dead territories of Ashenfall. Their dynamic is charged with unspoken tension: she knows him, he does not know her. He notices she flinches when he laughs. He notices she never sleeps. She notices he still hums the same old melody without knowing why.