Chapter 13
Chapter 13: The Open Door
Samira faces the choice to descend into the third gate or lose everything. The group argues, but a new threat forces them down. The door closes behind them, and they find a chamber of mirrors where their reflections do not match their movements.
The silence pressed down like a weight. Samira’s ears rang from the thunder of the gate closing, and the absence of the hum felt almost as loud. The black door at the bottom of the stairs stood open, a rectangle of absolute darkness that seemed to drink the pale light from above. No sound came from it. No draft. Just a stillness that felt like waiting.
Liam was the first to speak. His voice was hoarse. “We’re not going down there.”
“The voice said everything we saved will be lost if she doesn’t,” Marcus said. He pushed his glasses up, his eyes fixed on the stairs. “Logically, we have no evidence that obeying a disembodied voice is wise, but we also have no evidence that ignoring it is safer.”
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