The Crown Of Ash and Silver
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“The monks here practiced dual rites—Light and Balance, both. They believed one couldn’t exist without the other.”
Seraphina stepped closer, tracing the carvings on the altar’s edge. Faded symbols spiraled across the stone, half-buried under soot. Her fingers brushed them, and for a moment, the pattern beneath glowed faintly.
Elias blinked. “It responds to you.”
She nodded. “It remembers.”
Lucien leaned against a cracked column. “Then maybe it can tell us why the Church fears you so much.”
Elias picked up a fragment of parchment. “They fear what they can’t control. Equinox’s followers weren’t rebels. They were philosophers. They believed in balance through truth, not obedience.”