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Asher — POV

Author: Aliuibrahim
last update Last Updated: 2025-08-02 20:29:13

The moment she screamed, the walls cracked.

Not stone.

Not sigils.

The walls.

Reality bent like someone had gripped the edge of the Hollow and tried to fold it in half. I heard it in my bones before I saw it. A low-frequency hum that pressed against my teeth, my skull, like something ancient, grinding its teeth in the dark.

And then—

Silence.

For almost an hour, Isabella was gone.

Not hidden.

Not unconscious.

Gone.

It's like a thread cut too fast to bleed.

I’d seen a lot of things.

Watched flesh pulled from bone, and souls scream through the veil.

But nothing compared to that hour.

Corrin paced the war room like a blade without a sheath. Kaia was still singing — that song that made the windows sweat saltwater and turned the shadows into things that breathed.

And Aelira?

She just sat.

Watching the corner.

The same one the Mother’s voice had come from the night before.

I didn’t ask what she saw there.

Because I already knew.

And I was starting to wonder if she was
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