Elara Lucious’s roar splits the silence like a blade through glass—jagged and merciless. I spin, heart lurching against my ribs—and there he is. Tearing across the Ashen Road like a storm on fire, his wings blaze molten gold, every feather burning as if the sun itself bleeds through him. Light pours from him in torrents, searing the dark beneath my skin, pushing it back for one fragile heartbeat. Behind him, Seris runs silent and swift, cloak a shredded shadow, her blade naked in her hand, her eyes fixed on Kael with the calm of a predator stalking its kill. And Kael? Kael doesn’t move. He stands like a god carved from ruin—still, unshakable—one hand outstretched toward me, the Throne burning behind him like a black sun. A second, shattered dawn. Its light is wrong, too bright and too deep all at once, a radiance that stains everything it touches. “Elara!” Lucious’s voice rakes across my bones, raw and commanding. “Get away from him!” The bond snarls in response, wild and viol
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