Eternal Embers
“Read it before the fire. Then choose. The ashes are listening.”
And she vanished into a servant’s hallway, swallowed by shadow.
That night, alone, Isabelle read the letter by her hearth. The paper blackened at the edges, revealing words only when kissed by flame:
“Isabelle, if you’ve found this, the city is not what you believe. We bound the fire once, with our blood. But now the seal weakens.
If you do not rekindle the flame with knowledge and will, it will burn uncontrolled. Duskmoor is a tomb built atop embers.
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