I awoke with a start, my breath coming in short gasps, the weight of the dream lingering in my chest like a phantom touch. For a moment, I couldn’t move, couldn’t breathe—my mind still caught in the fragments of that vision. The howl from before, the distant, eerie cry, now faded to silence in my waking world, but the image burned into my mind. The Prophet. Not the man I’d come to fear, not the shadowed figure pulling strings from the darkness. No, in that moment, he was someone else entirely.I ran my hands over my face, trying to shake off the remnants of the dream, but they refused to dissipate. That young face. The innocence in his eyes, the fear... He wasn’t the monster I knew him to be. He wasn’t the manipulator who pulled everyone into his web.I could still hear his voice in my head, pleading, begging for something I couldn’t quite place. The desperation had been raw, unfiltered—a man who wasn’t the orchestrator of destruction, but 
 Last Updated : 2025-10-09
Last Updated : 2025-10-09