AlejandroThe first thing I noticed was the silence. Not ordinary silence. Forty-three people stood beneath the underground sanctuary, yet nobody spoke.They were looking at the world above them through the opening Eamon had created in the ancient structure, staring at a sky that belonged to a civilization none of them had expected to see.The youngest among them couldn't have been more than nine when they entered. Now she was still nine. Her mother was still thirty-two. Her brother, who had been seventeen, was still seventeen. Outside, generations had passed. Inside, time had simply stopped.I looked at the First Hollowed. He wasn't watching them anymore. He was staring at the walls. Something had changed in his face."What is it?" He didn't answer. I followed his gaze. The chamber stretched beneath the forest in a vast circular design. Stone corridors branched from the central room, each marked with the same symbols we'd seen on the surface.But now that we'd uncovered the interior,
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