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Lily

The snow wouldn’t melt near the old roots.

The tree sat at the farthest edge of the Vale, half-buried in the rock face, its bark gnarled like the fingers of a corpse. No leaves. No blossoms. Just the constant drip of blood-red sap.

Bloodroot.

Dax found it first—said the roots hummed beneath his boots, and the runes carved into the bark whispered in tongues no one could translate. But I understood it.

I felt it.

It wasn’t a tree.

It was a warning.

“Something ancient is beneath us,” I told Link that night, tracing the markings I’d copied into a leather-bound journal.

His hand curled protectively over my belly.

“You think it’s part of the prophecy?”

“I think it’s older than the prophecy.”

Link

Lily hadn’t slept in two nights. Her magic flared at random. Her body burned with fever and power. And our son? He kicked like he was fighting shadows in her womb.

Whatever was down there—it was calling her.

And she wasn’t the only one hearing it.

One of the emissaries vanished. Another was fo
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