“I know you,” Rachel said, her voice hoarse as the storm of echoes crumbled to ash around her.The figure stepped from the cracked remains of the crystal, unfazed by the collapsing Vault, as if the chaos had only been her introduction. Female in shape, her skin shimmered like polished obsidian streaked with veins of molten gold. Her smile was soft, but it never reached her eyes.And those eyes—those were wrong.Rachel had seen thousands of expressions in battle—fear, rage, madness, and grief—but the look in this one’s eyes was something else entirely. It was the gaze of someone who had already decided the outcome. It wasn’t fury or curiosity; it was finality. This woman looked at her as if Rachel had already lost.“You know what I was,” the figure said, her voice layered—one tone above, another humming beneath it, weaving through the air like music and menace. “But you don’t yet understand what I’ve become.”Dylan dropped from the shattered ledge, landing in a crouch beside Rachel. Bl
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