SERA. “Where’s this place?.” I asked no one in particular, The vision came in silence, no sound—just a stillness that wrapped me like mist. One moment I was lying on the couch in the hospital, then a room filled with dim flickering candle lights, and the next, the world folded inward. I blinked multiple times, trying to adjust my eyes to the new scene in front of me. The air was different. Heavy, but sweet. All around me, the land was gray— neither night nor day, just shifting fog and hollow wind. Trees loomed with pale bark like bone, and beneath my bare feet, the earth pulsed faintly, like it remembered something long buried. Ahead, a cave yawned open in the cliffside— Hollow Veil. I didn’t know how I knew the name. I just did. As if the syllables were etched in my blood. The entrance shimmered faintly with silver mist. The kind that didn’t belong in nature. Then I heard it. A voice—not loud, not frightening, but —ancient, Worn with age, and carved from the bones o
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