I chose.The moment my bare foot crossed the line of shimmering light, the world behind me collapsed into silence. The forest, the cabin, the rift’s roaring edge—all of it fell away like smoke torn by the wind. I was weightless, suspended in a tunnel of stars, fire, and voices that weren’t voices at all. They hissed, they wept, they begged, they laughed. Spirit after spirit clawed at me with questions I didn’t have time to answer.I screamed through them, pushing forward, until—Impact.I landed hard, knees buckling on stone slick with blood. The air was thick with smoke, with ash, with the metallic sting of iron and death. I staggered up, coughing, and when my eyes cleared—I was in the castle.Edric’s castle.Its marble pillars cracked, its tapestries shredded, its walls smeared with gore. The once-bright chandeliers flickered weakly as if they, too, were dying.And in the center of it all—Me.My old self.She stood tall on the dais, crown glowing silver, hair whipping like a storm
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