Ashes of Six
“Starlight, it isn’t about what you want or don’t want. It’s about what we’ve already chosen. We bound ourselves to you. You’re not carrying this alone anymore.”
My throat tightened until the words stuck there. I wanted to scream that they were wrong, that it was still me the Interregnum wanted to chain, to bleed, to control. That every strike, every betrayal, every whispered prophecy circled back to my blood. But the Sigil flared hotter, searing all four of us, and I felt them through it, Caelum’s rage, Lucien’s hunger, Elias’s steady fire. None of them flinched. None of them doubted.
And gods help me, part of me softened into it.
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