MY CRUEL PROTECTOR
"Then I’ll just have to love you enough to keep you grounded. I’m not afraid of your light, Ruby. I’ve lived in the dark my whole life. You’re the only sun I’ve ever known."
I closed my eyes, letting the silence of the cabin wash over me. The "Old Guest" was gone, but the "New Queen" was awakening. I could feel the golden scarab key in the pocket of my discarded jeans, pulsing with a low-frequency hum that matched the vibrations of the plane.
Alexandria was waiting. The ruins of a lost library, a man who had been a ghost for a decade, and a final sequence that would either free us or enslave the world.