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Chapter 19 – The Awakening

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There was no falling this time. No crashing, no impact. Just an endless white—so bright it felt like standing inside a lightning strike. I couldn’t move, couldn’t breathe. My body wasn’t my body; it was weightless, suspended in a silence so absolute it felt like sound had been erased from existence.

Then, all at once, the world slammed back.

Not gently—violently.

Air rushed into my lungs with a choking gasp. My knees hit stone. The roar of the chamber returned like a wave crashing over me, and the lights, the symbols, the tremors—all of it snapped back into focus.

I was on the ground, palms pressed against glowing carvings that pulsed in frantic patterns beneath my skin. The chamber around me was splitting open like an egg cracking under pressure—walls shifting, collapsing, rearranging themselves as if the entire structure was alive and trying to escape itself.

“Elara!” Damien’s voice cut through the noise—raw, terrified.

I whipped around. He was on the other side of the widening fiss
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