Elara Silence. Not the silence of peace. The silence after screaming—raw, jagged, echoing through my bones. I open my eyes. I expect white. Or black. Or nothing. Instead— Sky. Blue, but cracked. Like porcelain after a fall, spiderwebbed with fissures that glow faintly gold. Through those cracks, I see darkness—not night, not void, but something deeper, coiling like smoke behind glass. The breach didn’t close. It broke the world instead. I try to move. Everything hurts in ways that shouldn’t exist. My veins burn, my skin hums with something that isn’t power but memory of power. Like I was dipped in lightning and left to dry. Kael. The name is the only thing holding me together. I turn my head. He’s there. Alive. But changed. He’s lying on his side, half-buried in gray ash. His hair—black once, then streaked with silver—is now pure white, like frost. His skin is pale but marked with fine golden cracks that pulse faintly with each breath. And his e
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