KaelIt rushes outward in a wave, slamming into me, through me, around me. It sears across the battlefield, blinding white for a heartbeat. Every rune on every stone shatters with a crack like snapped bone. The black fog screams — not sound, but feeling — and then evaporates, ripped away in strips.The witch staggers back, her projected form flickering.Garrick drops to his knees, choking, whatever hold she had on him momentarily loosened. Wolves collapse or bow without meaning to, muzzles pressed to the ground as if gravity just doubled.I don’t bow.But my knees almost buckle.Her light doesn’t burn me. It hurts — but only because I’m not used to it. Because I’ve spent so long in the dark that any brightness feels like a wound. The curse inside me writhes, trying to retreat from it, but something holds it in place.Her.She’s holding it.“Elara,” I rasp. My voice scratches out of my throat like it hasn’t been used in years. “What are you doing?”“What I was born for,” she whispers.
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