His Hunger, My Curse
Every step Lena took felt heavier, as if unseen hands were pressing down on her shoulders.
Cassian and Dorian followed in silence, their expressions grim. Even they didn’t know what this trial entailed.
At last, they reached a chamber unlike the others.
At the center stood an altar—carved from obsidian, veins of molten gold running through it like lifeblood. Floating above it was a dagger, its blade forged from a material Lena didn’t recognize, its edges glowing with an eerie silver light.
Idris moved to stand beside the altar. “This is the Blade of Ancients,” he said. “Forged in the fire of the first Trueborn. It does not spill blood—it takes something far deeper.”
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