Elara My feet hit the Ashen Road like it isn’t shattering beneath me. Like I’m not walking into the jaws of something that will swallow everything. Because Kael said my name. And the bond—gods, the bond is no longer a whisper or a hum. It’s a storm inside me, a tidal pull that drags me forward even as Seris’ fingers claw into my arm, anchoring me like a hook in my flesh. “Elara!” Her voice is jagged steel. “Don’t you dare—” I wrench free. I don’t even feel myself doing it. Shadows coil around my ankles, wrapping like vines, slick and alive. They’re gentle on me—terrifyingly gentle—while the rest of the world screams. Because Kael isn’t a man anymore. He’s becoming. The Throne answers him, pulses with him, like it’s always been waiting for his voice. Spires of black crystal bloom upward, splitting the Ashen Road like ribs tearing from the body of a god. Silver light veins through them—Kael’s veins, Kael’s blood made architecture—and the air bends, warps, like gravity is breakin
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