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The first sound was stone grinding against stone.Seraphina stood beneath the crimson crown, Dawn clenched in her right hand and Dusk in her left, while dust drifted from the ceiling around them. The buried kingdom had gone unnaturally quiet after the First Hunger vanished, but the silence didn't last.Something scraped against the foundations beneath their feet.Once.Then again.Slow. Heavy.Close enough to make the stone tremble beneath Seraphina's boots.Elara pressed herself against Dusk-born's side. The little girl's fingers tightened around the fabric of her clothes as she stared at the cracked floor."That's where it is," she whispered.Seraphina kept both blades lowered, though the crimson light running along their edges had begun to pulse. "What's down there?""The thing."Another tremor rolled through the chamber.A thin crack appeared between the ancient stones.Caelan took a step backward.Seraphina noticed the movement without taking her eyes from the floor. Fear had fin