The Luna's Deception
He had drawn it from the vault itself, from every soul it had ever held, and now that the vault was empty, he had nothing left to stand on.
He fought it. His spirit clawed at the air, at the broken jars, at anything solid enough to anchor him, and the fissure beneath him widened instead, black light bleeding up through the crack like something underneath the tower had been waiting years for permission to rise.
"Sera." Kieran pulled me back. "Whatever this is, it is not the same as her."
It was not. Morvanna had thinned into silence. Kaelen came apart in pieces, each one tearing free with a sound like stone splitting under pressure, his voice breaking into fragments that no longer resembled w