The world was falling apart. Stone screamed as the chamber walls tore open, whole slabs shearing loose and plunging into the abyss below.Fire erupted from the fissures, lighting the ruins in an infernal glow. Above, the roof groaned like a dying beast, cracks spidering outward as dust rained down in choking clouds.Adrien’s lungs burned. His arms locked protectively around Liora as he staggered to his feet, his vision swimming from blood loss.She was limp against him, eyes half-lidded, fever-hot. Her small fingers clutched at his torn shirt as though she sensed everything crumbling around them.And at the center of the destruction, Sera. She stood rigid, her back arched unnaturally, her eyes blazing with white fire. Her hair whipped around her face in a storm of light and shadow.The Dominion writhed beneath her skin, each surge cracking her flesh like porcelain stretched to breaking. She was both radiant and terrifying. And her voice, the voice that wasn’t hers, still echoed.“Run.
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