Bound to the Enemy’s Bed
The council remnants scrambled for weapons, for wards, for anything that might still mean hope.
Kairis raised her staff. “Stand firm! The Vale remembers its masters— make it remember your names!”
But the darkness didn’t slow. It climbed, it reached, and for a moment the stars themselves seemed to blink out.
Vareth turned to her. “What is it doing?!”
She met his eyes, voice shaking for the first time. “It’s claiming what’s left.”
Then, from deep within the Vale, a new light broke — faint, blue-white, cutting through the dark like the edge of a blade.
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