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Chapter Fourty Three: Shattered Reflections

Author: Jane Orwell
last update Last Updated: 2025-10-14 04:46:27

The forest no longer breathed.

Even the wind dared not whisper through the trees as Lila stumbled through the hollow paths, barefoot and dazed. The moon hung above her like a bleeding eye—unmoving, eternal. She could not tell if she had been walking for hours or days. Every sound felt wrong. Every heartbeat echoed twice, once inside her chest and once far away, like a shadow following too closely.

“Cole?” Her voice cracked against the silence. “Cole, where are you?”

No answer. Only the distant hum of something that did not belong to this world.

Her palms were stained with dark earth. There were gaps—whole fragments of time she couldn’t recall. The last thing she remembered was the temple collapsing, the flare of red light, and Cole shouting her name. After that… nothing. A void. And then, she woke up, surrounded by glowing roots and a faint pulse of power deep in the ground, like a heart buried beneath her feet.

Her own heartbeat stuttered in response.

Lila pressed a trembling hand to
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