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Embers of the Fallen
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2025-06-13 12:09:27The dawn broke blood-red.
Not with the grace of light tiptoeing across the sky, but with fire splitting the heavens like a scream.The land of Ember Hollow was no longer simply haunted. It was consumed.Smoke choked the trees. Rivers turned black with ash. The once-sacred stones that lined the path to the Sanctuary lay scattered, defiled and scorched. The echoes of the last battle still vibrated in the bones of the earth. And above all, the sky held its breath—waiting.Isabella stood amidst the ruins of the Eastern Bastion, her body shivering not from cold, but from something older. Older than fear. Older than pain.It was knowing.A foreboding that the fury of the Elders had only begun to uncoil.The battle at the Glade had not ended in victory—it had paused. A ceasefire born not from truce, but from strategy. The Council and Catherine had vanished into the veil of bloodlight, their magic leaving behind curses that stil
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