Chapter 79

*Elora*

I don’t know what I expected the Midwinter Chamber to look like.

But it sure as hell wasn’t this.

The air shifted the second the stone doors closed behind us. It wasn’t just cold—it was ancient. Heavy with a weight I couldn’t name. As if generations of secrets were sewn into the rock itself. My steps slowed as the passage opened wider, the tunnel sloping down into the mountain’s gut.

And t