The Devil's Broken Doll
Darkness wrapped him, cold and intimate, and the palace’s veins opened like an unwilling throat.
The shadows closed over Caelum like cold water. They carried him fast at first—instinctive, practised—slipping him through seams in the palace where stone forgot itself, and light thinned into suggestion. He moved the way he always did when urgency grabbed at his ribs: silent, controlled, and invisible.
His pulse hammered in his wrists anyway, traitor loud to his own ears, each beat a flare he had to smother.
But this time, the shadows fought him. Not openly, not enough to betray him, but they dragged, resisting the edge of his intent, thickening where they should have parted. The palace was awak
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