Claimed by the Fallen Five
“You are blind. You think the fracture bends to your will, but it is bending you. Do you not feel it? Do you not feel how it is hollowing you out?”
Mae’s gaze snapped between them, torn, burning, but her feet refused to move. The Champion’s head lowered further, massive chains clattering as though in deference. For the first time since its arrival, Mae did not feel like prey. She felt the fracture surge through her like a tide, an ancient current too vast to resist.
Her wings, pale constructs of violet fire, unfurled fully from her back, their glow casting the battlefield in light that stung against the ash. She drew in a long, shaking breath and whispered, “This is not surrender. This is a
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