THE VEILED BRIDE
She smiled, pleased that I'd finally caught on.
"Exactly." She raised both hands high, and darkness gathered above us in a mass that blotted out whatever passed for sky in this place. "You cannot defeat something that belongs to the world you're standing in."
She brought her hands down in one violent motion, and a mountain of darkness came crashing toward me with a weight that felt like the end of everything. I screamed as white light erupted from my entire body at once, every last reserve I had left pouring out of me in a desperate rush. The darkness hit me like a physical wall, and I held it back with everything I had, my feet digging deep grooves into the cracked ground beneath me as I fo
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