Where Shadows Meet Starlight

Previously

…Seren smiled. “The fracture is sealed. The Veilwood will heal. You have until the new moon to find your path—and now, you have time.” The pool went still. The face dissolved, leaving only silver. Kael let out a breath he seemed to have been holding. “You did it.” “We did it.” Elara turned to him. The sphere lay in two pieces at her feet, cool and dark. But the key was still there, embedded in the shard, pulsing with light. “What now?” he asked. Elara looked at the shard. The key. The path ahead, still dark, still unknown. “Now,” she said, “we find our way home.” The shard hummed, and a door began to form in the far wall—a door made of light, its edges flickering like flame."