The abyss fell silent.Not the battlefield.Not the world.The abyss itself.For the first time since its awakening, the endless golden eye beneath reality did not move.It watched.Still.Focused entirely on Lira and Kael.The air around them felt wrong now, like the universe was holding its breath, waiting to see which truth would break first.Kael was barely standing.The silver light around him flickered dangerously, as though even the bond was struggling to maintain his life. The moonsteel arrow still pierced his chest, and the void wound in his side pulsed with dark energy that refused to heal.Yet he remained upright.Because Lira was holding his hand.And that was enough.For now.Lira stood between Kael and the abyss’s rising form, silver energy flowing steadily through her veins like liquid light. The exhaustion was there, deep, bone-level exhaustion, but it no longer controlled her.Something had shifted inside her completely.Fear no longer led.Love did.The King stood a
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