The water wasn't cold. It wasn't warm either. It felt like nothing and everything at once, and the moment I touched it, the world fell away.I was no longer in the temple. I was standing in the same chamber, but it was different. The walls were brighter, the carvings fresh and sharp, and the pool before me glowed with a light that came from somewhere deep beneath the earth. A woman knelt at the water's edge, her white hair loose around her shoulders, her hands submerged in the glowing pool. She was chanting, low and steady, and the words vibrated through the stone like a heartbeat."I swear to protect the Book of Blood with my life," the woman said, and her voice echoed in the chamber. "To carry its knowledge through the ages, to defend it from those who would misuse it, and to pass it on to the one who comes after me. This I vow, before the Luminara and the ancestors. This I vow, as the first Guardian."The woman lifted her hands from the water, and the light clung to her fingers lik
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