I couldn't sleep.Even after Clora returned with water and left again without a word, and even after Luthor stayed silently near the cracked wall, I lay awake with every nerve trembling. The fire had been put out, but something in me still burned. The pulse. The voices. The sensation of my body no longer belonging to me.I was scared.More than scared. Terrified.Because whatever had happened today it wasn’t over. Something had begun. Something that refused to be caged again.When morning came, Luthor didn’t speak much. He gave me a plain robe, helped me wrap my burned hands, and guided me through stone corridors to a sealed chamber deep beneath the Keep. The air was cold, but thick with old power. I could taste it in my teeth.The chamber had runes etched into every surface glowing faintly, like the heartbeat of something ancient slumbering beneath the stone.“This place is shielded,” Luthor said. “No eyes. No ears. No judgment. Just the truth.”I stood in the center, heart hammering
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