THE CROWN THEY HID FROM ME
They had been removed along with the connection itself.
Rhyne moved first, his steps controlled but sharper now, his focus shifting outward rather than down. “If this is where it ends,” he said, his voice steady but edged, “then whoever did this didn’t just interrupt it. They made sure nothing could return.” Kael followed a moment later, though his gaze lingered briefly on the severed line before he stepped away, as if committing its precision to memory. “Not just nothing,” he said quietly. “No trace of what used to continue past it. That’s not damage. That’s erasure.”