The voice that came from Kael’s mouth was not his.It carried his cadence—his breath, his throat, the familiar scrape of sound that had once said her name like a promise—but it was hollowed out, layered with something older and sharper beneath it, like a blade wrapped in silk.“I found a way in.”Aria’s scream tore through the Null.She shoved herself backward, scrambling across the glass-dark floor, dragging Kael with her before she even realized what she was doing. Her hands shook violently as she pressed them to his chest, to the glowing sigil cracked open across his ribs.“No,” she whispered. “No—no—no—”Kael’s body convulsed.His spine arched, claws scraping grooves into the surface beneath him as silver fire and shadow warred across his skin. His eyes—his eyes—flickered between molten gold and something else entirely. Something cold. Something watching her from behind them.Lyris smiled.Not with Kael’s mouth.With the way the shadows bent around his body.With the way the Null
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