Soulbound
Avery stumbled back, breath ragged, as ripples spread outward into infinity.
From the depths below, she saw lights—hundreds of them—like stars caught beneath the water’s skin. Each light pulsed with a rhythm that wasn’t random. Souls.
Whispering.
She leaned closer, listening.
Each voice was faint, fragmented—some pleading, some singing, some weeping.
But one voice rose above the rest.
Kael.
“…Avery… hold on… find your way back…”
Her breath caught. “Kael?”
The reflection of water shifted, and for a heartbeat she saw him kneeling in the ruins of the sanctum—calling her name, surrounded by ghostlight and falling ash.
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