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Chapter 38 - The One Who Burns Beside Her

Penulis: Expertjoe
last update Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-07-04 08:24:30

POV: Lila & Maximus

Lila

The sky refused to fade.

It should’ve gone dark.

Should’ve blinked, dimmed, returned to its rightful hush after the Skybound ruling. But the glyphs above the compound still glowed like open wounds in the stars.

I couldn’t sleep.

Not with the mimic humming under my ribs and my name still echoing in celestial dialect across the night.

They’d accepted me.

However, the prophecy was still active. It had just grown eyes.

Elora found me tracing the ancient maps of the Outer Bone Range scorched relics from the time Sylva believed the Gate’s roots ran deeper than anyone realized.

She pointed to a folded glyph on the edge of the sky diagram.

The same glyph that now hovered overhead.

> “It’s not just a marking,” she whispered. “It’s a path.”

She meant: the Gate’s memory isn’t sealed to the temple anymore.

It’s moving.

Calling.

Maximus

The night after the Tribunal ruling, I dreamed her name.

Not Lila’s.

The mimic’s.

I didn’t even know she had one
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