The Lost Beta
The runes glowed softly beneath her feet, but the power didn’t rise, it waited.
“I remember,” she whispered. “His name was Caelen.”
The ground shook as soon as she said the name. With a loud crack, a tree close to the ruins' edge split open, exposing a hollow room. A scroll wrapped in red silk lay inside, perfectly preserved. Emily retrieved it with shaking hands.
Selene examined the scroll and paled. “This... this is the Seal of Succession. Only a rightful heir could have summoned it.”
Emily read the parchment aloud. It spoke of the last royal siblings, twins who vanished the night of the Great Betrayal. The queen had died, yes. But the king had hidden the children to preserve the line. One
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