Ashes of Six
I couldn’t lose it before the real danger even began.
But as the first illusion stepped onto the path, a shadow with teeth, eyes glowing red, I knew the Gauntlet had only just woken up. And so had I.
The shadow lunged, and for half a heartbeat, I thought it was just another trick of the Gauntlet, an illusion meant to scare us into turning on each other. But when Elias’s rune-flame scorched across its chest, the figure screamed like a man, not a phantom, and collapsed into the dirt. Its cloak caught fire, burning away to reveal armor beneath. Not student robes. Not enchanted constructs. Armor that gleamed wrong in the moonlight, silver, threaded with dark veins that caught and held the glow l
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