Shadowbound Flame
The very ground shook under his presence.
Gloria bowed low, trembling not with fear, but with triumph.
“My lord.”
Vorath’s gaze slid past her, fixing instead on the empty air where his daughter had stood.
A cruel smile curved his mouth.
“She will return to me,” he said, voice cutting through ruin and smoke alike. “Body, blood, and soul. She was always mine to begin with.”
The fire flared, blotting out the stars.
The ruins of the academy smoldered, towers reduced to black skeletons. The forest groaned, half-ash, half-alive, caught between worlds.
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