Aether's Obsession
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Then, after a beat, a soft click in my earpiece translated it.
“Welcome, emissaries of Terra. I am Kaelith, First Warden of the Gate. The Sovereign awaits.”
English. They’d learned it in three months. We still couldn’t produce a single syllable of Thaloric without sounding like choking birds. Some of them didn’t bother with spoken words at all; they projected meaning straight into your skull, cool and precise, as ice water poured over your thoughts.
Mara muttered under her breath, “Jesus.” Elias just kept his jaw locked and his shoulders squared, the way he did whenever he was terrified.