Chapter 8
Chapter 8
The shadow reveals itself as a woman carrying another fragment of the stone. She warns that the seal is being torn from within by something older than the man they trapped. The group must decide whether to trust her as the ground begins to crack open beneath their feet.
The fence rattled again, louder this time. Elias’s hand twitched toward his pocket, as if he still had the stone. But it was gone, dissolved into the membrane. All he had now was the memory of its weight.
“Who’s there?” Lena’s voice cut through the silence. She stepped forward, fists clenched. “Show yourself.”
The shadow moved. It didn’t step out of the fading light—it seemed to detach from it, peeling away from the chain-link like a layer of paint. A woman emerged. She was tall, with sharp cheekbones and dark hair pulled into a tight braid. Around her neck hung a fragment of stone, identical to the one pulsing at their feet. It glowed with the same slow rhythm.
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