Chapter 266

(Go To Elara Point of View):

Something changed in me.

It wasn’t sudden, not a bolt of lightning or an echo of magic.

It was quieter. A shift, a ripple, a whisper beneath my skin — like something had turned inside me and was now waiting, listening.

At first I thought it was my imagination. Maybe nerves from the rogue attack. Maybe exhaustion. Maybe heartbreak lingering from Dante’s collapse and rec