Darkness was not a void, Aiden discovered. It was a weight. It felt like being submerged in a pool of molten gold—thick, heavy, and searingly hot.When his eyes finally fluttered open, the first thing he felt was not the biting frost of the Hutan Kematian, but a thrumming heat that radiated from the very earth beneath him. The snow that had once threatened to bury him had melted in a perfect circle around his body, leaving the dark, obsidian soil steaming in the twilight.Aiden gasped, his lungs burning as if he had inhaled smoke. He tried to push himself up, but his limbs felt heavy, charged with a strange, buzzing energy that made his skin tingle."You are awake."The voice didn't come from the air. It vibrated through the ground, through his bones, and through the silver-white wolf that crouched, trembling, in the back of his mind.Aiden scrambled backward, his hands catching on the sharp edges of the obsidian rocks. The massive black dragon was still there, but it had changed. The
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