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Chapter #21 - The Ember Veil

Author: Rayne Sharp
last update Huling Na-update: 2025-11-11 11:16:20

(Elara’s POV)

By the time the sun rose, the forest was no longer the same.

The trees thinned until the earth gave way to red stone and ash with a scar cutting straight through the land, smoking faintly as if the world itself remembered being burned. The Ember Veil. The border between the living realm and the fractured lands beyond.

The air shimmered with heat, though no fire burned. Every breath felt heavier, threaded with whispers I couldn’t understand.

Riven was the first to speak. “You sure this is the way?”

Kyren didn’t answer right away. His eyes tracked the horizon, where a faint crimson haze twisted like the pulse of a dying star. “The Veil shifts. But this... this is close enough.”

“That’s comforting,” Riven muttered. “If dying horribly counts as close enough.”

Ashen moved ahead, silent, his cloak brushing the scorched ground. “The wards here are old. Strong. But something’s broken them recently.”

Kyren’s expression darkened. “Then we’re not alone.”

He glanced back at me brief
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