Soulbound
She stumbled, and suddenly she was standing at the base of the Council chamber once more.
The room was colder than memory, vast and echoing, carved from obsidian stone. The ceiling stretched into darkness, never visible, and shadows seemed to breathe along the walls. Six thrones arched high above her, each one occupied by a figure cloaked in black so deep it swallowed light. Their eyes burned faintly with shifting colors—red, silver, gold, green, violet, white—like dying stars.
Avery’s knees wobbled under the weight of their gaze. She remembered too well the crushing force of their judgment the first time. Kael stepped forward without hesitation, head bowed but shoulders squared, as though t
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