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The Fire beneath the throne

Author: Mariee-somma
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The red dawn peeled slowly over Ember Hollow, igniting the sky in burning streaks of gold and wine. Bells tolled softly in the distance, their tones warped by the thick mist that curled through the city’s half-ruined alleys. Isabella stood before the Hall of Echoes, where the spirits of past Chosen were said to linger, their voices captured in stone, their wisdom etched in the air.

She had come alone.

The silence inside was heavy, almost holy. Pillars of worn marble loomed like ghosts in the haze, each one etched with the name of a priest or priestess who had died invoking the divine flame. She traced her fingers along the runes on the fourth column—her mother’s name.

Her voice came out as a breath. “You knew. All along, didn’t you?”

There was no answer, yet something warm stirred in her chest, not quite grief, not quite strength. A fusion of both. She knelt, placing the last Seer Stone on the central altar. The moment it touched the slab, light e
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