Chapter 123

Elara’s Point of View:

The dark haze twisted around me like vines made of nightmares, slithering around my ankles, rising toward my throat. I couldn’t breathe.

The sky above warped with shadows, swallowing the stars, the moonlight drowned by Lorkas’s presence. His power wasn’t just darkness—it was despair, grief, bitterness that had festered for centuries.

Lorkas’s voice slithered into my ear, co