The cave swallowed me whole.I moved through familiar passages, past paintings that seemed to watch my passage, deeper into the mountain where the first had slept for three thousand years. The air grew warm, then hot, until sweat ran down my face and soaked my clothing despite the cold beyond these walls.Somewhere ahead, Lyra waited.Somewhere ahead, Logan suffered.Somewhere ahead, my destiny waited to be claimed or destroyed.I felt the first stir in my blood, her presence stronger here than anywhere else. This place was hers, had been hers for millennia, and even now, even after she had transferred her essence to me, the cave remembered her.She is close, the first whispered. I can feel her malice like rot in the stone.I know, I replied silently. I can feel her too.The passage opened into the chamber where I had first touched the first, where she had transferred her power into my blood. The stone platform where she had lain stood empty now, but something else occupied the space
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