The world comes back to me in pieces—heat first, then pain, then the weight of silence.Smoke coils thick and bitter around the shattered council chamber. Stone groans under its own ruin, embers falling like dying stars. I push myself upright, coughing, my palms sinking into ash and cracked marble. My body should be broken. I can feel where the ceiling collapsed, where fire swallowed the air——but I am alive.More than alive.Power hums beneath my skin, restless and bright, shadows curling around me like living silk. They recoil from the flames, devouring smoke, holding the rubble at bay as if the darkness itself refuses to let me fall.I rise.The chamber reveals itself in brutal clarity. Council seats lie overturned, some crushed entirely, others stained dark with blood. Those who judged me, who shackled me, who fed Damien’s lies—gone or fleeing, scattering like frightened prey into the tunnels beyond.Shadowfang has been gutted in a single breath.A shape stirs through the haze to
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