The curse on Zane lasted exactly seventy-two hours, but each one felt like an eternity.He lay in our chambers, his body trapped between forms, healing and tearing itself apart in an endless cycle. I barely left his side, my hands moving constantly, trying to ease the pain, trying to find some angle where my healing could touch the curse.It never worked.Elder Morgana brought books, researched, consulted with other magical experts through her communication stones. There was nothing. No magic in our world could break a Primordial binding curse."Unless you go to them," she said quietly on the second day. "If you surrendered the children to them as payment, they might lift the curse.""I'm not surrendering my children.""I know. But you should know what your options are."By the third evening, as the curse began to lift on its own timeline, I was running on no sleep and pure desperation.Aurora and Atlas had stopped asking why their father was suffering. They'd simply joined me, placin
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