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Chapter Forty-seven: Shadows Between Them

Author: Evelyn Hart
last update Last Updated: 2025-08-03 01:47:52

The stone walls of the forgotten chamber trembled as silence pressed in like a weight. Seraphina leaned heavily against the cracked archway, her hand trembling from the residual energy of the broken seal. Her chest heaved, every breath a battle. The echo of Astra’s scream still rang in her ears.

“I—I didn’t mean for this,” she whispered.

Lucan stood at the edge of the chamber’s broken center, jaw clenched, eyes focused on the spiraling darkness that still churned faintly above the altar. “You opened the seal,” he said quietly. “That wasn’t just a dream anchor, Sera. That was containment.”

“I know that now,” she snapped, wiping her hand across her face. Her fingertips came away glowing faintly with gold. “But you didn’t tell me what would happen if I touched it.”

“I didn’t think you’d do it.”

“Well, I did. And now the Sleepless One knows I’m awake.”

Lucan exhaled hard, stepping toward her. “We have to move. It’s not safe down here anymore.”

From deeper in the temple corridor, a low gro
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