Ashen's scream wasn't made of sound, It was made of fracture.Reality around her buckled as the void-lance struck her chest, sinking deep, like a nail being driven through the heart of a sentence. Her body arched in midair. Her eyes went wide, violet light spilling from them in flickering bursts, then stillness.Liora’s breath caught, For one second, the world held her between moments, between words, And then it shattered, Ashen fell like an unfinished thought, Not graceful, Not tragic, Just broken.She hit the ground hard, her small frame cracking the earth beneath her. The crown, the Hollow Crown, tumbled from her head, rolling once, then stopping at Liora’s feet. Liora didn’t move.Couldn’t, Because the air around Ashen was… undoing, Grass unraveled into linework. Stones became outlines. The soil beneath her burned white-hot, like the world wasn’t erasing her, it was rejecting her.The girl convulsed, breath stuttering, Her ink-blood seeped from the wound and spilled into glyphs on
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