Echoes of the Forgotten God

Previously

…The whispers Elara had spoken of felt closer now, a subtle hum beneath the silence of the library, a resonance that seemed to emanate from the very book in her hands. A doubt, sharp and cold, pierced through her carefully constructed faith. What if the Forgotten God was not a savior, but a harbinger of oblivion? And what if Elara was not meant to awaken it, but to contain it, or perhaps, even to destroy it? The weight of that possibility settled upon her, a burden heavier than any she had carried before, and she knew, with a chilling finality, that her journey, and Elara's, had just truly begun.