eclipse total

Previously

…As Elara left the antique shop, the wooden box of eclipse stones clutched tightly in her hand, the sky was a deepening bruise of twilight. The societal unrest felt less like a distant phenomenon and more like a palpable presence, a creeping dread that seeped into the very marrow of the city. Dr. Finch’s frantic calculations, Professor Armitage’s determined suppression, and Old Man Hemlock’s cryptic warnings – they all converged into a single, ominous point. The Great Eclipse was no longer just a date on a calendar. It was a reckoning. And the veil of darkness was about to descend.