°•♡Chapter 133~ If She can Feel Me

《》Cael’s POV

The Citadel’s secret archives were silent, as they had always been.

The silence was heavy with the weight of all the stakes.

Aria's life.

I was sure few mortals had ever stepped within these chambers— with all its ancient and sacred knowledge. It wasn't the normal Citadel library. I'd had to pry its location from the high priestess.

The air smelled of dust and parchment, and of knowledge that had not been touched in ages. Scrolls curled into themselves as though guarding secrets no one dared to unearth. Books were stacked high upon shelves and in heaps of books I'd long read and discarded for lack of information.

And still, after weeks of searching, I had found nothing.

Nothing that could bring Aria back to me.

My fingers brushed against another brittle page as my eyes scanned the words. But the truth mocked me with its absence. Not a single record spoke of her condition. Not a whisper of how to retrieve a soul caught in the void.

For the first time in millennia, I fel