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Chapter 197: What the Earth Remembered

Author: Anala
last update Last Updated: 2025-05-25 08:59:20

When Dain woke, it wasn’t to light.

It was toowarmh—pressing, steady, not from fire or sun, but from something more elemental. It filled his chest, pulsed in his ears, spread to his fingertips like he’d been rewired from the inside out. His eyes opened slowly, adjusting not to brightness but to a glow that seemed to exist behind his eyes, woven into the air around him.

The chamber was no longer stone and dirt.

It had changed.

Or maybe he had.

The walls no longer throbbed with red. They shimmered now—silver laced with threads of gold, as though the interior of the earth had turned itself inside out to show its veins. The core—the thing that had pulsed like a heart, cracked like an egg, and somehow spoken into him—was gone. In its place stood a smooth basin, filled with something that looked like liquid metal but moved like water stirred by a breeze.

He pushed himself upright slowly, groaning as he found his feet. The warmth hadn’t left, but it had settled now, like an ember lodged behi
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