Beneath the Diamond Veil
My body ached, but worse than the physical pain was the sense that everything I thought I understood about myself—and Damien, and Alexander—was about to be rewritten.
When I blinked, the world wasn’t what I remembered. The chamber had changed. The floor was no longer solid stone, but a shimmering expanse of fractured glass, stretching in all directions. The artifact hovered at the center, its mercury-like surface rippling as if it were alive. Around it, faint shadows moved like tendrils, writhing in the air, flickering with a dark, almost sentient light.
Damien groaned behind me. He was bruised, his clothes torn from our fall, his hands covered in scratches from the jagged floor. “Elara,” he
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