Bound by Crystals and Shadows
When he finally turned to me, his green eyes held a sadness that words couldn’t quite touch.
“ There was,” he said, voice low. “ But not anymore.”
I stopped walking, turning toward him fully. “ What do you mean?”
He looked past me, toward the horizon where the sun bled gold and violet into the sky. For a long moment, he said nothing, only stared, as if the memory itself weighed too much to carry.
“ Nineteen years ago,” he began softly, “ the night the shadows rose from the underworld, the Crystal Kingdom burned.”
My breath caught. “ The shadows?”
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