Elane watched from the half-open door as Rohan darted over to the lava hellebore and witnessed as his body went limp from shock.
'Rohan!'
At first, she thought something had happened to him, like the heat finally breaking him or the flower doing something to him, but she held herself back from running inside after him after seeing him stand back up on his own.
Even from over 500 metres away, Elane could see the look on his face.
It was not fear, nor was it excitement.
It was the kind of look that only came when experiencing something far beyond what you prepared for. Elane's grip tightened around the frame of the half-open door.
'What did he see?'
