The light was unbearable. Sera thought she had been burned before, by flame, by betrayal, by the searing sting of Kael’s cruelty, but this was different.This wasn’t heat on skin. It was inside her, flooding her veins, breaking every nerve open until she wasn’t sure if she was burning alive or being reborn.Her scream shredded through the void. And then, Silence. When her eyes opened, the world had changed. No longer the gray void, no longer Kael’s hollow laughter clawing at her ears.She lay on solid ground, cold stone beneath her palms. Her breaths came in ragged gasps, chest heaving, but she was alive. Slowly, painfully, she lifted her head.She wasn’t alone. The cavern stretched vast and endless, walls carved with veins of molten gold that pulsed like a heartbeat. Firelight licked across the ceiling, but no flame burned.Instead, the glow came from runes etched into every surface, symbols she half-recognized, ancient and alive. But it wasn’t the cavern that stole her breath. It wa
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