The hum beneath the stone was not merely sound.It was cadence—measured, deliberate, impossibly old.Elaria felt it first along her teeth, a faint ache that vibrated through enamel and memory alike. Then it sank deeper, threading itself into her bones, into marrow and pulse, until her body was no longer separate from the rhythm beneath her feet. This was not the tremor of something approaching too fast or too large. It was the steady acknowledgment of a presence long anticipated.As if the land itself had been waiting.Kael staggered forward, boots scraping against stone that shimmered faintly underfoot. His hand was already on his sword, knuckles white, breath shallow. “That’s not structural collapse,” he said, voice low and tight. “That’s recognition.”Elaria pushed herself upright more slowly. Her limbs felt heavy, not with exhaustion, but with awareness—as though every cell had been reminded of a truth it had once known and never asked to forget. The sky above them was wrong in su
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