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Chapter 40: The Fourth Cradle

Author: Yurivale
last update publish date: 2026-10-13 13:51:58

The fifth heartbeat answered from beneath the sanctuary.

Once.

Twice.

Then every light in the chamber went out.

Kael grabbed Caelan's hand as darkness swallowed the room. Somewhere behind them, Rowan shouted an order, and Seraphine began chanting in a language so old that the stones themselves seemed to tremble at its sound.

But Kael heard only one thing.

A heartbeat.

It was not his.

It was not Caelan's.

And it was not the strange second rhythm that had followed him since the Moon Crown first a
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