The deep catacombs of the Silver Moon were no longer a place of silent, cold burial; they had become a chamber of restoration, where the pulse of the Stone Sister was at its most primal. I stood in the center of the obsidian hall, my Tempered Heart beating a steady sixty-beat rhythm that anchored the room. Beside me, five-year-old Lyra shimmered in her crystalline Prism Wolf form, her coat refracting the violet gold light into a soft, dancing rainbow that reached into every corner of the dark. Kaelen, the First King, sat on a bench of raw quartz, his graphite skin looking heavy and brittle under the weight of ten thousand years of unhealed memory."The trauma is not in your mind, Kaelen," I said softly, my voice a vibrant melody that resonated through the quartz. "It is in the architecture of your marrow. You are still holding the frequency of the ancient separation, the moment you turned away from the fire to protect the stone. That grief has crystallized, and it is blocking the flow
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