Thalia's Ashen Fate
There were no handles, no hinges, no seam to suggest how they might be opened.
After a moment’s hesitation, I stepped forward and pressed my palm flat against the cold, unyielding stone. Closing my eyes, I reached inward for my own power and poured it outward not as a force, but as a question, a resonant plea. For a heart-stopping second, there was nothing. Then, a low groan answered, the sound of stone grinding against stone for the first time in millennia. The doors shuddered open, releasing a sigh of stale air and a cloud of dust motes that danced like constellations in the sudden slice of daylight.
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