{Ava’s POV}The battlefield emptied slowly.That was the strangest part— how noise didn’t vanish all at once, but thinned slowly, like blood seeping out of a wound. Screams dulled into moans. Orders became murmurs. Steel clattered, abandoned, no longer needed. Smoke lifted in pale ribbons, revealing what the war had tried to hide.Bodies.Broken stone.The Palace grounds, once white marble and banners, was now a mosaic of ash, blood, and shadow.I stood in the center of it, breathing too hard, my claws still extended, my fangs aching as if they didn’t quite believe the fight was finished.Gregon was dead.The truth settled into me slowly, cautiously, like something that might explode if handled too roughly.I looked down.His body lay where it had fallen— massive even in death, corrupted flesh already beginning to collapse inward as the power holding it together unraveled. The shadows recoiled from him now, no longer answering his call.No roar.No prophecy.No last words.Just… silen
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