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Chapter 11: Blood in the Stone

Author: Echo Trune
last update Last Updated: 2025-10-01 09:20:36

ARIA'S POV

The forest breathed like a living thing. Shadows stirred between the skeletal trunks, curling around the bark and clawing at the ground as though reaching for her. Aria's sigil burned hotter with every step, molten fire racing through her veins. The mark pulsed, as if it too sensed the predator stalking them.

Kael moved at her side, his body a storm of heat and shadow. The chains were gone, but fire still danced across his skin, leaving sparks that smoldered in the damp earth. His golden eyes cut through the dark, sharp and unyeilding.

"You feel it, dont you?" His voice coiled low in her mind, vibrating through her bones. "The bond-it's alive, and it's pulling us forward. Faster."

Aria's chest tightened. The bond was maddening, molten and insistent, like a tether hooked inside her ribs. She could feel him through it- every thrum of his pulse, eery twitch of muscle, every dark thought. Her skin prickled as shadows licked her waist, phantom fingers urging her closer.

"I-I don
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