Tales of Desire
Then the visions hit.
They crash over me in waves, not memories exactly but fragments of something ancient and shared. I see the temple as it was thousands of years ago, whole and gleaming, guardians standing where the elders now kneel, their bodies marked with the same violet spirals, wielding shadows and light like weapons against a darkness that tried to swallow the valley. I see myself, or someone who looks like me, standing beside a man who looks like Kael, hands joined, power roaring between them to seal the wards. The images shift faster, showing battles won, betrayals that cracked the stone, a final desperate rite that sealed the heart of the temple away until two souls strong enough