The sky returned to normal again.Too normal.The stars above them glittered in a different silence, the crimson tear vanished as if it had never existed. The ridge looked broken, afraid, and littered with the blackened remains of the fallen Warden. But up above them, the heavens were calm.But Dax didn’t trust it.He held Aria closely, almost as if the air itself might try to take her away from him.“You said it marked you,” he murmured.Aria nodded faintly, still catching her breath. “It wasn’t a physical one. Not like a wound.” She swallowed. “It touched the weave.”The stranger stepped closer, gaze sharp. “Let me see.”For a moment, Aria hesitated, then closed her eyes.Instead of forcing power outward, she reached inward—into the silver lattice that now lived right beneath her skin. The anchor responded immediately, threads began illuminating in her mind like constellations.And there it was. A single thread that glowed differently.Not crimson nor broken.But changed.Dax sa
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