Nyla’s POV I stood frozen, watching as the boy—my boy—reached out toward the flame again, his fingers shaking with trepidation. I could feel the earthquake beneath my feet, the very ground splitting up with a crash so loud it sounded like the Earth itself was breaking. But then, everything became silent. The flame flickered and vanished, fading into the air, and the child was gone. I briefly believed I had lost him, but then an odd event occurred. The space around me began to alter, the cave falling in on itself, and suddenly, I was no longer standing in that dark, shaking place. Rather, I found myself standing in a desolate, icy, and dead landscape. The sky above was overcast with whirling shadows, as if the sun had long since perished, and the air was heavy with dust. There was no sound, no movement, only the oppressive silence of a world that had been forgotten. I whirled around, feeling a cold crawl up my spine. When I saw him, my heart skipped a beat. The boy. It wasn't the
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