Chapter 5
Chapter 5
The group walks the luminous path toward the heart of the membrane. Aena reveals she has walked this path before, and the stone begins to pull them toward a fracture in the sky—a vision of the man who shattered the boundary. Solara warns that he knows they are coming, and the path begins to dissolve behind them, forcing them forward.
The path of translucent stone stretched ahead, floating in the purple-green sky. Each step sent faint ripples across its surface, like walking on water that had forgotten how to be wet. The light at the end—the heart—pulsed steadily, a beacon that never seemed to get closer.
Elias kept his hand wrapped around the stone. It was warm now, but not painfully so. More like holding a cup of tea that had been sitting too long. He could feel it beating in time with his own heart, which was weird and a little gross if he thought about it too much.
“How far is it?” Lena asked. Her voice echoed strangely in the open space, as if the sky itself was repeating her words a split second later.
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