For a moment, silence hung suspended in the air—thick, charged, bending the room into a gravity that centered entirely around Aria’s heartbeat.Luminari.The word pulsed through her mind like a tolling bell, ancient and sharp, ringing inside her bones.She didn’t move.Couldn’t breathe.Couldn’t think past the shock.The luminous figure stepped further into the chamber, silver fire licking the floor without burning it.Erevan moved instantly, placing himself between Aria and the being, shadows rising like a tide around his body.“I will not warn you again,” he growled. “Stay away from her.”The Luminari tilted its head, almost curious. “You threaten a relic of the First Light, shadow king?”“I threaten anything that reaches for her.”“Then you threaten the inevitable.”Erevan’s shadows snarled, but the being continued as if he weren’t there, its focus locked on Aria with unsettling clarity.“You feel it, do you not?” it said softly. “The awakening. The lineage. The memory of a blood o
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