The transition was so sudden it felt like waking from a fever dream. One moment, the air was thick with the suffocating pressure of a god's wrath; the next, the churning obsidian mist of the seal realm began to dissolve, thinning until it was nothing more than a memory of a storm. Above us, the jagged, broken sky cleared, replaced by an endless expanse of soft twilight—a hue I had never seen before, a deep, luminous amethyst shot through with veins of cooling amber. The oppressive silence was gone, replaced by the distant, rhythmic hum of a world beginning to breathe again.Fenrir stood before us, and the sight of him made my heart stutter. The towering monster of shadow was gone. In his place stood a man who bore Kaelen's face, yet carried the weight of eons in the set of his shoulders. His eyes, once twin suns of blood-red fury, were now a calm, serene gray, as clear as a mountain lake after a rain. He didn't look like a prisoner anymore; he looked like a weary travel
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