The sound came first. Not a voice, not thunder — just a low, trembling hum that felt like it was coming from under her skin.Aelin stood in the middle of what used to be the wasteland. It wasn’t that anymore. The ground was rippling like glass, and every step she took left a faint silver print that shimmered for a second, then vanished. The air was filled with reflections, broken ones — half-formed faces, hands reaching, fragments of a thousand versions of herself, scattered through the Veil.“You tore the barrier,” the god whispered. “Now the world remembers you in pieces.”“Good,” she said under her breath. “Let it.”Because for the first time since she woke here, she wasn’t afraid. The fear had burned out, replaced by something colder. A stubborn kind of clarity.She walked until the reflections started speaking back.Some of them were children — wide-eyed, innocent, holding stuffed wolves. Others were older, broken, their eyes hollow, their voices bitter. They were all hers, and
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